Eleanor Martin's research while affiliated with University of Michigan and other places

Publications (4)

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This study leverages naturally occurring lotteries for oversubscribed Boston Public Schools prekindergarten program sites between 2007 and 2011, for 3,182 children (M = 4.5 years old) to estimate the impacts of winning a first choice lottery and enrolling in Boston prekindergarten versus losing a first choice lottery and not enrolling on children’s...
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Universal public prekindergarten programs have been expanding in recent years, but not all eligible families apply to these programs, for reasons that are not well understood. Using two cohorts of students (N = 8,391) enrolled in Boston Public Schools, we use geographic information systems to combine administrative records with census data to compa...
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Although text messaging interventions targeting parents of older students have shown promise for improving a variety of outcomes, evidence on text-based outreach and support for parents of young children is just emerging. We explore programmatic data from a text-based mentoring intervention designed to support postpartum mothers and promote healthy...

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... In the elementary and secondary school contexts, researchers have leveraged this random assignment to estimate the causal impacts of charter schools (Abdulkadiroğlu et al., 2011;Dynarski, Hubbard, Jacob, & Robles, 2019;Unterman, Bloom, Byndloss, & Terwelp, 2016;Unterman, 2017) and small schools of choice (Bloom & Unterman, 2014). This design has been leveraged in preschool in only two peer-reviewed studies to date (Gray-Lobe, Pathak, & Walters, 2023;Weiland et al., 2020), though at least five teams total (represented on our authorship team) are now leveraging this methodological approach to investigate policy and practice questions in large-scale systems. ...
... Of course, any additions must be balanced against administrative burden for participants and equity issues. Research has already shown that some of the groups most likely to benefit from public preschool programs are the least likely to apply (Shapiro, Martin, Weiland, & Unterman, 2019) and that administrative burden is a barrier for some families interested in public preschool programs (Weixler, Valant, Bassok, Doromal, & Gerry, 2020). ...