Can schools that boost student outcomes reproduce their success at new campuses? We study a policy reform allowed effective charter in Boston, Massachusetts to replicate school models locations. Estimates based on randomized admission lotteries show replication generate large achievement gains par with those produced by parent campuses. The average effectiveness of Boston’s middle sector increa...

The ability to speak and understand a host country’s primary language is strongly associated with measures of immigrant integration. We estimate the causal effects English training for adult immigrants on participants’ civic economic outcomes using randomized enrollment lotteries from public education program in Massachusetts. Participation doubles voter participation increases annual earnings ...

Leveraging the Tennessee STAR class size experiment, we show that Black students randomly assigned to at least one teacher in grades K–3 are 9 percentage points (13 percent) more likely graduate from high school and 6 (19 enroll college compared their schoolmates who not. teachers have no significant long-run effects on White students. Postsecondary education results driven by two-year colleges...

School choice systems aspire to delink residential location and school assignments by allowing children apply schools outside of their neighborhood. However, programs also affect incentives live in certain neighborhoods, this feedback may undermine the goals choice. We investigate possibility developing a model public narrows range between highest lowest quality compared neighborhood assignment...

Participants in means-tested programs must periodically document eligibility through a recertification process. If all cases that fail are ineligible, the exact timing of this process should be irrelevant. We find later interview assignments for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which leave less time to reschedule missed interviews, decrease success by 22 percent. The consequenc...

The results of an 18-year radial-velocity survey of 30 red giants in the field of the open cluster NGC 752 are presented. The membership of 15 stars is confirmed. Four spectroscopic binaries have been discovered among the members and three orbits have been determined for H75, 110 and 208, with periods of 3321, 127 and 5276 days respectively. The binary frequency (27%) is normal. A search for ad...

We analyse pension reforms for police officers in England and Wales using force-level data. We quantify the impact on overall police pension plan liabilities, examining incidence across police officers, national and local taxpayers. We also examine reforms of retirement rules, especially concerning early retirement on grounds of ill-health. Differences in ill-health retirement across forces are...

This article compares the experiences of resistance and accommodation by University South Carolina (USC) Boğaziçi to imposition a right-wing head university government fiat. I begin with description USC case examine one scholarly response. offer critique that response in terms problematics about gendered subject when involving principles free speech importance speaking truth power. then turn br...

State Merit-based Financial Aid Programs and College Attainment We examine the effects of recently adopted state merit-based financial aid programs on college attendance and degree completion. Our primary analysis uses microdata from the 2000 Census and 2001-2010 American Community Survey to estimate the effects of merit programs on educational outcomes for 25 merit aid adopting states. We also...

In this paper we examine the relationship between the timing of food stamp receipt and consumption patterns. We combine data on state distribution dates with scanner data on a panel of households. Consistent with previous work we find that purchases of a variety of goods are higher on receipt days. Additionally, we find that when receipt days are more likely to be on weekends, total monthly con...