通往大学成功的不同路径：马萨诸塞州特许学校对大学轨迹的影响
Different Paths to College Success: The Impact of Massachusetts’s Charter Schools on College Trajectories
AER: Insights · 2026 · [{"name": "Sarah Cohodes", "affiliation": ["Center for Economic and Policy Research"]}, {"name": "Astrid C. Pineda", "affiliation": ["Columbia University"]}]
中文摘要
特许学校运动涵盖多种学校模式。在作为本研究地点的 2010 年代马萨诸塞州，城市特许学校主要采用“No Excuses”（不容借口）做法，而非城市特许学校的模式则更为多样。利用随机录取抽签，我们按地区估计了特许学校对大学备考、入学和毕业的影响。城市特许学校提升了上述所有结果。非城市特许学校尽管降低了州统考成绩和 AP 课程注册率，却仍提高了大学入学率和毕业率。值得注意的是，非城市特许学校在大学毕业方面的优势，是就读城市特许学校所带来优势的两倍多。（JEL H75, I21, I23, I28）
Abstract
The charter school movement encompasses many school models. In Massachusetts in the 2010s, the site of our study, urban charter schools primarily used “No Excuses” practices, whereas nonurban charters had greater model variety. Using randomized admissions lotteries, we estimate the impact of charter schools by locality on college preparation, enrollment, and graduation. Urban charter schools boost all of these outcomes. Nonurban charter schools raise college enrollment and graduation despite reducing state test scores and AP enrollment. Notably, the nonurban charter college graduation edge is more than twice as large as that from urban charter attendance. (JEL H75, I21, I23, I28)