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Replication Data for: "Augmenting State Capacity for Child Development: Experimental Evidence from India" Open

Alejandro Ganimian, Karthik Muralidharan, Christopher R. Walters · 2023

This is the replication package for "Augmenting State Capacity for Child Development: Experimental Evidence from India," accepted in 2023 by the Journal of Political Economy.

A Discrimination Report Card Open

Patrick Kline, Evan K. Rose, Christopher R. Walters · 2023

We develop an Empirical Bayes grading scheme that balances the informativeness of the assigned grades against the expected frequency of ranking errors. Applying the method to a massive correspondence experiment, we grade the racial biases …

Replication Data for: 'The Long-Term Effects of Universal Preschool in Boston' Open

Guthrie Gray-Lobe, Parag A. Pathak, Christopher R. Walters · 2022

The programs replicate tables and figures from "The Long-Term Effects of Universal Preschool in Boston", by Gray-Lobe, Pathak, and Walters. Please see the README REPLICATION file for additional details.

Systemic Discrimination Among Large U.S. Employers Open

Patrick Kline, Evan K. Rose, Christopher R. Walters · 2022

We study the results of a massive nationwide correspondence experiment sending more than 83,000 fictitious applications with randomized characteristics to geographically dispersed jobs posted by 108 of the largest U.S. employers. Distincti…

The Demand for Effective Charter Schools Open

Christopher R. Walters · 2018

This paper studies the demand for charter schools in Boston, Massachusetts, with an emphasis on comparative advantage in school choice. I model charter school application and attendance decisions in a generalized Roy selection framework th…

Replication data for: Free to Choose: Can School Choice Reduce Student Achievement? Open

Atila Abdulkadiroğlu, Parag A. Pathak, Christopher R. Walters · 2018

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 stri…

Free to Choose: Can School Choice Reduce Student Achievement? Open

Atila Abdulkadiroğlu, Parag A. Pathak, Christopher R. Walters · 2018

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 stri…

Erratum to “Leveraging Lotteries for School Value-Added: Testing and Estimation” Open

Joshua D. Angrist, Peter Hull, Parag A. Pathak, Christopher R. Walters · 2017

Through the Looking Glass: Heckits, LATE, and Numerical Equivalence Open

Patrick Kline, Christopher R. Walters · 2017

Structural econometric methods are often criticized for being sensitive to functional form assumptions. We study parametric estimators of the local average treatment effect (LATE) derived from a widely used class of latent threshold crossi…

Evaluating Public Programs with Close Substitutes: The Case of HeadStart* Open

Patrick Kline, Christopher R. Walters · 2016

We use data from the Head Start Impact Study (HSIS) to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of Head Start, the largest early childhood education program in the United States. Head Start draws roughly a third of its participants from competing p…

Stand and Deliver: Effects of Boston’s Charter High Schools on College Preparation, Entry, and Choice Open

Joshua D. Angrist, Sarah Cohodes, Susan Dynarski, Parag A. Pathak, Christopher R. Walters · 2016

We use admissions lotteries to estimate the effects of attendance at Boston's charter high schools on college preparation, college attendance, and college choice. Charter attendance increases pass rates on the high-stakes exam required for…

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