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Thursday, May 8

Charles Hotel Pavilion, Kennedy Room, 1 Bennett Street, Cambridge MA

1:00 p.m.

Opening Remarks

Paul E. Peterson, Harvard University 
Michael Hartney, Boston College

1:15 p.m.

Session 1: Politics of School Choice: The Current Landscape

Chair: Paul E. Peterson, Harvard University

The Current School Choice Landscape
Derrell Bradford, 50CAN National

Public Opinion on Education Savings Accounts, School Vouchers, and Charter Schools
Paul DiPerna, EdChoice

The Politics of Private School Vouchers: Evidence from Three Statewide Referenda
Vladimir Kogan, Ohio State University * presenting
Michael Hartney, Boston College
Parker Baxter, University of Colorado - Denver

Expansion of Education Freedom in Donald Trump's Second Term
Jim Blew, Defense of Freedom Institute

2:30 p.m.

Break

2:45 p.m.

Session 2: School Choice and Long-Term Impacts

Chair: Wayne D. Lewis Jr., Houghton College

Different Paths to College Success: The Impact of Massachusetts’ Charter Schools on College Trajectories
Sarah Cohodes, University of Michigan * presenting
Astrid Pineda, Teachers College Columbia

Long-run Consequences of a Targeted School Voucher Program: Evidence from Ohio’s EdChoice Program
David Figlio, University of Rochester and Hoover Institution * presenting
Chris Karbownik, Emory University and NBER
Matt Chingos, Urban Institute

3:45 p.m.

Break

4:00 p.m.

Session 3:  Education Savings Accounts and Homeschooling

Chair: Robert Enlow, EdChoice

Arkansas Freedom Accounts ESA program
Daion L. Daniels, University of Arkansas * presenting
Alison Heape Johnson, University of Arkansas
Josh B. McGee, University of Arkansas
Patrick Wolf, University of Arkansas

Paying for Private Education: Who Benefits in Arizona
Dave Wells, Grand Canyon Institute

The Path Toward Evaluating the Impacts of Education Savings Accounts on Academic Achievement Outcomes
Susha Roy, RAND * presenting
Heather Schwartz, RAND
Alexis Gable, RAND

Who Homeschools and What ‘Success’ Means to Them: Experimental Evidence from a National Sample
Angela Watson, Johns Hopkins Homeschool Research Lab * presenting
Matthew Lee, Kennesaw State University

5:15 p.m.

Networking Reception

6:00 p.m.

Keynote Address

Steven Wilson, Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research

Charles Hotel Pavilion, Longfellow Room

Friday, May 9

Taubman Building, 15 Eliot Street, 5th floor (elevator access only)

8:00 a.m.

Hot Breakfast

Allison Dining Room

All panels in Nye ABC conference room

8:45 a.m.

Session 4: School Choice During a Pandemic

Chair: Marty West, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Covid-19 Disruptions and Choice: Student Movement and Academic Outcomes in Indiana During the Pandemic 
Julie W. Dallavis, University of Notre Dame * presenting
Stephen M. Ponisciak, University of Notre Dame

The Expansion of Eligibility in Indiana’s Voucher Program and Impacts on Student Participation, Sorting, and Segregation 
Joseph Waddington, University of Notre Dame * presenting
Mark Berends, University of Notre Dame 
Megan Austin, American Institutes for Research 
Joseph Ferrare, University of Washington-Bothell 
Ron Zimmer, University of Kentucky

Factors Driving School Choice in North Carolina During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Anna Egalite, North Carolina State University * presenting
Daniel Bowen, Texas A&M University
Brian Kisida, University of Missouri

10:00 a.m.

Break

10:15 a.m.

Session 5: Public School Choice

Chair: Michael Hartney, Boston College

Spillover Effects of Charter Schools: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Texas
John Singleton, University of Rochester, NBER * presenting
Angela Crema, Yale School of Management

The Attraction of Magnet Schools: Evidence from Embedded Lotteries in School Assignment
Umut Dur, North Carolina State University
Robert Hammond, University of Alabama
Matthew Lenard, Florida State University * presenting
Melinda Morrill, North Carolina State University
Thayer Morrill, North Carolina State University
Colleen Paeplow, Wake County Public School System 

Still Worth the Trip? School Busing Effects in Boston and New York
Joshua Angrist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Guthrie Gray-Lobe, University of Chicago
Clemence M. Idoux, University of California, San Diego
Parag A. Pathak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology * presenting

11:30 a.m.

Session 6: School Choice, Structure and Spillovers

Chair: Kerry McDonald, Foundation for Economic Education

The Effects of Universal School Vouchers on Private School Tuition and Enrollment
Gabriel Olivier, Tulane University * presenting 
Douglas N. Harris, Tulane University

A Voucher Priced to Work: Variable Matching Grants for Private School Choice
Nat Malkus, American Enterprise Institute * presenting
Sam Hollon, American Enterprise Institute

Supply-Side Responses in School Choice
Chandon Adger, Unaffiliated researcher
Brianna Felegi, Virginia Tech * presenting

12:45 p.m.

Adjourn – Lunch

Boxed lunches provided in Allison Dining Room

This research conference is by invitation only. It will not be recorded or streamed. Conference papers will be available on this page at a later date.