Free to Choose: Can School Choice Reduce Student Achievement?
A central argument for school choice is that parents can choose schools wisely. This principle may underlie why lottery-based school evaluations have almost always reported positive or zero achievement effects. This paper reports on a striking counterexample to these results. We use randomized lotte...
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| Language: | English |
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American Economic Association,
2018-03-15T20:36:22Z.
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