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November 2021

COVID-19 within families amplifies the prosociality gap between adolescents of high and low socioeconomic status

Daniel L. Chen, Matthias Sutter, and Camille Terrier

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Using Admissions Lotteries to Validate and Improve School Quality Measures

Joshua Angrist, Parag Pathak, Peter Hull, and Christopher Walters

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The Returns to College(s): Relative Value-Added and Match Effects in Higher Education

Jack Mountjoy and Brent R. Hickman

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Charter Schools’ Effectiveness, Mechanisms, and Competitive Influence

Sarah R. Cohodes and Katharine S. Parham

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Dynamics of the Gender Gap in High Math Achievement

Glenn Ellison and Ashley Swanson

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The Efficiency of Race-Neutral Alternatives to Race-Based Affirmative Action: Evidence from Chicago’s Exam Schools

Glenn Ellison and Parag Pathak

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Can Successful Schools Replicate? Scaling Up Boston’s Charter School Sector

Sarah Cohodes, Elizabeth Setren and Christopher Walters

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The Distributional Consequences of Public School Choice

Christopher Avery and Parag A. Pathak

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Charter Schools and Suspensions: Evidence from Massachusetts Chapter 222

Mayara Felix

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How Well Do Structural Demand Models Work? Counterfactual Predictions in School Choice

Parag A. Pathak and Peng Shi

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Regulatory arbitrage in teacher hiring and retention: Evidence from Massachusetts Charter Schools

Jesse Bruhn, Scott Imberman, Marcus Winters

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Boys Lag Behind: How Teachers’ Gender Biases Affect Student Achievement

Camille Terrier

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Do Parents Value School Effectiveness?

Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Parag A. Pathak, Jonathan Schellenberg, and Christopher R. Walters

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Extending the Race between Education and Technology

David Autor, Claudia Goldin, and Lawrence Katz

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The Long-Run Impacts of Specialized Programming for High-Achieving Students

Sarah R. Cohodes

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Maimonides Rule Redux: Does Class Size Affect Student Achievement?

Joshua D. Angrist, Victor Lavy, Jetson Leder-Luis, and Adi Shany

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