Preferences and Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in a Public School Choice Lottery

Justine S. Hastings, Thomas J. Kane, Douglas O. Staiger

NBER Working Paper No. 12145
Issued in April 2006

---- Acknowledgements -----

The authors thank the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School district for making this project possible. Sean Hundtofte and Orkun Sahmali provided outstanding research assistance. We would also like to thank Joseph Altonji, Patrick Bayer, Steven Berry, David Card, Kenneth Chay, Philip Haile, Fabian Lange, James Powell and participants at various seminars for helpful comments and discussion. The project is funded by grants from the Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University and the US Department of Education. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

return to bibliography page