Using an Experimental Evaluation of Charter Schools to Test Whether Nonexperimental Comparison Group Methods Can Replicate Experimental Impact Estimates

Kenneth Fortson, Natalya Verbitsky-Savitz, Emma Kopa and Philip Gleason

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Abstract: Using data from Mathematica's experimental evaluation of charter schools, this methodological study examines the validity of four different comparison group approaches to test whether these designs can replicate findings from a well-implemented random assignment study.

Keywords: within-study comparison randomized controlled trial quasi-experimental; nonexperimental propensity score matching; nonexperimental design validity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 68
Date: 2012-04-30
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