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The Effects of Hurricane Katrina and the New Orleans Charter School Reforms on Youth Crime by Stephen Barnes, Douglas Harris, Lan Nguyen is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Hurricane Katrina, in addition to being one of the nation’s worst natural disasters, triggered various policy changes in New Orleans, including extensive charter-based school reforms. We provide some of the first evidence on the effects of these combined events on the rate of juvenile adjudications and criminal convictions of students who attended New Orleans publicly funded schools. First, we find that Katrina as a whole did not increase youth crime and probably reduced youth crime. We then use two novel variations of Synthetic Control Group (SCG) analysis to isolate the effects of the school reforms: (a) adapting SCG in the spirit of a triple-difference analysis; and (b) examining the identifying assumptions of SCG using extensive qualitative data collection. Applying these methods with statewide student-level longitudinal data from Louisiana, we find that the charter school reforms were likely the main driver of the reduction in convictions and this was driven by actual reductions in crime, not changes in policing and prosecution.

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Author

Stephen Barnes, Douglas Harris, Lan Nguyen

Published

2022

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Management, Education Management & Organisation, Business