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Sarah R. Cohodes
Education and the Gender Voting Gap
Topics: Policy, Politics, and GovernanceWomen in the United States have outpaced men in both voter participation and educational attainment in recent decades. Since education is closely tied to political participation, we consider these trends in tandem and assess how much of the gender gap in voting is attributable to differences in… more →
STEM Summer Programs for Underrepresented Youth Increase STEM Degrees
The federal government and many individual organizations have invested in programs to support diversity in the STEM pipeline, including STEM summer programs for high school students, but there is little rigorous evidence of their efficacy. We fielded a randomized controlled trial to study a… more →
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 →
Why Does Education Increase Voting? Evidence from Boston’s Charter Schools
Topics: School ChoiceTags: Charter schoolsIn the United States, people with more education vote more. But, we know little about why education increases political participation or whether higher-quality education increases civic participation. We study applicants to Boston charter schools, using school lotteries to estimate charter… more →
Can Successful Schools Replicate? Scaling Up Boston’s Charter School Sector
Topics: School ChoiceCan schools that boost student outcomes reproduce their success at new campuses? We study a policy reform that allowed effective charter schools in Boston, Massachusetts to replicate their school models at new locations. Estimates based on randomized admission lotteries show that replication… more →