Matthew Yglesias

Matthew Yglesias

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This is a paper that truly changed my son’s life. Parents worry way too much about totally superficial indicators of school quality.

Nicholas Decker

Nicholas Decker

Parents really want their children to go to the best schools, with the best students as peers. But does it actually matter? In New York and Boston, students who just miss the cutoff to go to exam schools perform no worse than they would have been expected to. 1/

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