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SUMMARY:Dr. Anastasia Semykina\, Florida State University 
DESCRIPTION: \n\nABSTRACT Economic theory predicts that\, by aligning house
 hold\npreference with the education production\, more choice and competiti
 on\nwould lead to an improvement in school quality and student outcomes.\n
 However\, empirical studies of the competition effects have obtained\nmixe
 d results\, ranging from negative or insignificant effects\, to\nsignifica
 nt positive effects. In this paper we use travel time to\nmeasure charter 
 school penetration\, which\, we argue\, more accurately\nreflects the ease
  of access to charter schools. We further combine the\ninstrumental variab
 les approach with student and school fixed effects\nto account for non-ran
 domness in charter location and student\nmobility. Our school level analys
 is shows that charter penetration\nleads to an improvement in teacher qual
 ifications in nearby\ntraditional public schools. Our student level analys
 is shows that\ncharter competition leads to systematic positive gains in m
 ath score\ngains\, but not in reading. The improvements are mostly concent
 rated in\nmiddle schools and among white students.\n 
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LOCATION:Gerri C. LeBow Hall\, 3220 Market Street\, 722\, Philadelphia\, PA
  19104
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