id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt WOS-000327900400003 Curto, VE The Potential of Urban Boarding Schools for the Poor: Evidence from SEED 2014 .txt text/plain 105 4 52 We provide the first causal estimate of the impact of attending SEED schools on academic achievement, with the goal of understanding whether changing a student''s environment is an effective strategy to increase achievement among the poor. Using admission lotteries, we show that attending a SEED school increases achievement by 0.211 standard deviation in reading and 0.229 standard deviation in math per year. cache/WOS-000327900400003.txt txt/WOS-000327900400003.txt