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Evaluating Controlled Choice with a Decomposition Approach: Evidence from Washington, D.C.
Equity goals are increasingly embedded directly in school-assignment mechanisms (“controlled choice”), but evaluations of these reforms …
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Vaccines, Peers, and School Attendance: Evidence from COVID
This paper estimates the causal effect of peer vaccination on individual vaccine take-up and school attendance. The empirical strategy …
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Absenteeism, Race and the Role of the School Environment: Do COVID Vaccine Take-Up and School Crowding Matter?
The COVID pandemic renewed focus on absenteeism and school-based health risks, with widening racial disparities. Using administrative …
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Did COVID Widen the Race Gap in Chronic Absenteeism? Unpacking Racial Disparities
Purpose: Chronic absenteeism has surged since the onset of COVID-19, disproportionately affecting minority students, though such …