Code for Different Paths to College Success: The Impact of Massachusetts' Charter Schools on College Trajectories

This provides the replication package for "Different Paths to College Success: The Impact of Massachusetts' Charter Schools on College Trajectories." The paper abstract is: The charter school movement encompasses many school models. In Massachusetts in the 2010's, the site of our study, urban charter schools primarily used ``No Excuses" practices, whereas nonurban charters had greater model variety. Using randomized admissions lotteries, we estimate the impact of charter schools by locality on college preparation, enrollment, and graduation. Urban charter schools boost all of these outcomes. Nonurban charter schools raise college enrollment and graduation despite reducing state test scores and AP enrollment. Notably, the nonurban charter college graduation edge is more than twice as large as that from urban charter attendance.

本数据集为论文《不同的大学成功路径：马萨诸塞州特许学校对大学升学轨迹的影响》提供可复现研究包。该论文摘要如下：特许学校运动涵盖了多种办学模式。本研究的研究场景为2010年代的马萨诸塞州，当地城市特许学校主要采用“无借口”（No Excuses）办学模式，而非城市特许学校则拥有更为多样的办学类型。本研究借助招生随机抽签机制，评估了不同地域的特许学校对大学升学准备、入学率及毕业率的影响。研究结果显示，城市特许学校可全面提升上述三项结果指标；非城市特许学校虽会降低州内标准化考试成绩与大学先修课程（Advanced Placement，AP）的报名人数，但仍能提升大学入学率与毕业率。值得注意的是，非城市特许学校在大学毕业率上的优势，是城市特许学校就读所带来的毕业率优势的两倍以上。