Do Small Schools Improve Performance in Large, Urban Districts? : Causal Evidence from New York City. Working Paper #01-12 / Amy Ellen Schwartz, Leanna Stiefel and Matthew Wiswall.

We evaluate the effectiveness of small high school reform in the country's largest school district, New York City. Using a rich administrative dataset for multiple cohorts of students and distance between student residence and school to instrument for endogenous school selection, we find substa...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ERIC)
Main Authors:	Schwartz, Amy Ellen, Stiefel, Leanna (Author), Wiswall, Matthew (Author)
Corporate Author:	New York University. Institute for Education and Social Policy
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[Place of publication not identified] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 2012.
Subjects:	Small Schools. Urban Schools. School District Size. School Districts. Educational Change. High Schools. Place of Residence. Geographic Location. School Location. Outcomes of Education. School Effectiveness. Graduation.