What Researchers Discovered When They Sent 80,000 Fake Résumés To U.S. Jobs
What Researchers Discovered When They Sent 80,000 Fake Résumés To U.S. Jobs
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What Researchers Discovered When They Sent 80,000 Fake Résumés To U.S. Jobs
A new study looks at the effects of government-funded preschool in Boston and finds big benefits for kids.
Diether W. Beuermann, Kirabo Jackson Friedman (1955) famously argued that giving households freedom to choose schools would improve outcomes, including educational performance. At first pass, this is a straightforward claim, since it extends standard results from markets for consumer goods to education. Yet rigorous empirical work has produced mixed results on Friedman’s prediction. For example, voucher experiments suggest that choice can impact students’ measured skills in ways that are highly positive (Eyles and Machin 2015, Bettinger et al. 2017), modest (Muralidharan and Sundararaman ...