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Title: Using Centralized Lotteries to Measure Preschool Impact Insights from the DC Prekindergarten Study
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Publication Year: 2020
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Abstract: A growing number of cities organize common application systems for families seeking free public preschool for their children. These cities, including Atlanta, Boston, New Orleans, New York City, and Washington, DC, differ substantially in the parameters of their systems, their preschool eligibility criteria, and the quality and availability of their preschool programs. What they share is the use of an innovative assignment mechanism—the deferred acceptance (DA) algorithm—to assign students to schools that receive more applications than they have seats (Abdulkadiroğlu et al. 2017; Gale and Shapley 1962; and Pathak 2011). The DA algorithm, in turn, provides the basis for a naturally occurring randomized experiment with the potential to revolutionize preschool impact evaluation.
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Authors: Monarrez, Tomas; Greenberg, Erica; Luetmer, Grace; Chien, Carina
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Topics: Education
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