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I'm an Economics Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley focusing on public finance topics at the intersection of labor economics and macroeconomics. My current research focus is on the interaction of corporate taxation, firm location decisions, and the location and scale of economic activity. You can follow me on twitter @omzidar.
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Tag Archives: Charter Schools
What Would Happen If Charter School Availability Were Expanded Greatly? Part 2
Chris Walters, who I first mentioned in this post, gave his job market talk at Berkeley yesterday. Roughly speaking, his story is that although some of the lottery evidence in Boston suggests that some Charter Schools can substantially increase test scores, … Continue reading
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What Would Happen If Charter School Availability Were Expanded Greatly?
An interesting job market paper from Christopher Walters of MIT: ABSTRACT: Lottery-based instrumental variables estimates show that Boston’s charter schools substantially increase test scores and close racial achievement gaps among their applicants. A key policy question is whether charter expansion … Continue reading
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Tagged Charter Schools, Christopher Walters, Education, inequality, Middle Class
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