Carolyn Sattin-Bajaj
When Do Informational Interventions Work? Experimental Evidence from New York City High School Choice
Topics: School ChoiceTags: High schoolsThis paper reports the results of a large, school-level randomized controlled trial evaluating a set of three informational interventions for young people choosing high schools in 473 middle schools, serving over 115,000 8th graders. The interventions differed in their level of customization to… more →
Racial Disparities in Pre-K Quality: Evidence from New York City’s Universal Pre-K Program
Topics: Student LearningNew York City’s universal pre-kindergarten program, which increased full-day enrollment from 19,000 to almost 70,000 children, is ambitious in both scale and implementation speed. We provide new evidence on the distribution of pre-K quality in NYC by student race/ethnicity, and investigate the… more →