Still Worth the Trip? School Busing Effects in Boston and New York

Thanks to Adrian Blattner, Kate Bradley, Nicolas Jimenez, Vendela Norman, Chetan Patel and Luke Stewart for exceptional research assistance and to Eryn Heying, Jennifer Jackson, Jim Shen and Anna Vallee for dependable administrative support. We gratefully acknowledge funding from the Spencer Foundation. This paper reports on research conducted under data use agreements between MIT, the project principal investigators (Angrist and Pathak), the Boston Public Schools, and the New York City Department of Education. This paper reflects the views of the authors alone. We are grateful to Zachary Bleemer, Jesse Bruhn, and Derek Neal for comments and participants at the NBER Fall 2021 Education conference, Uppsala University, CESifo, University of Chicago, and the 2022 IAAE meetings for feedback. The work discussed here was funded in part by the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and the W.T. Grant Foundation. Joshua Angrist's daughter teaches in a Boston charter school. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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