Charter Schools and Labor Market Outcomes

We thank the Texas Education Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin's Ray Marshall Center for providing the data used in our analysis. We also thank David Card, Raj Chetty, Matt Davis, Hank Farber, Edward Glaeser, Hilary Hoynes, Lawrence Katz, Pat Kline, Michal Kolesar, Alan Krueger, Alex Mas, Parag Pathak, Jesse Rothstein, Adam Sacarny, Jesse Shapiro, Doug Staiger, Chris Walters, Danny Yagan, Seth Zimmerman, and numerous seminar participants for helpful comments and suggestions. Elijah De la Campa, Tanaya Devi, Matt Farber, Samsun Knight, William Murdock III, Namrata Narain, Rucha Vankudre, Dan Van Duesen, Jessica Wagner, and Brecia Young provided exceptional research assistance. Correspondence can be addressed to the authors by e-mail at wdobbie@princeton.edu [Dobbie] or rfryer@fas.harvard.edu [Fryer]. The research presented here utilizes confidential data from the State of Texas supplied by the Education Research Center (ERC) at The University of Texas at Austin. The views expressed are those of the authors and should not be attributed to the ERC, nor to the National Bureau of Economic Research, nor to any of the supporting organizations mentioned herein, including The University of Texas at Austin or the State of Texas. Any errors are attributable to the authors.