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In a new handbook chapter, Blueprint Co-Director David Autor and co-authors find that U.S. places hit hardest by increased Chinese import competition in the 2000s have rebounded economically, but people whose jobs were affected have not. Read the chapter: blueprintlabs.mit.edu/research/place…

Today, Blueprint School Access and Quality Fellow Kia Sweeney Scott led a session on unifying magnet school transfers in Orange County Public Schools.

Blueprint was thrilled to facilitate a panel at #SXSWEDU on declining enrollment in US public schools. Former SAQ Fellows Sarah Briggs, Dave Hand, and Daniel Hildreth shared their districts’ trends and strategies for monitoring and mitigating declining enrollment.

In today’s School Access and Quality webinar, Blueprint Affiliate Viola Corradini presented to SAQ Fellows on school quality ratings in New York City. Her research shows that providing easy-to-parse ratings improves efficiency and equity. Read more: drive.google.com/file/d/1QdH31D…

In a new working paper, Blueprint researchers apply econometric methods to evaluate the effects of revascularization, an invasive surgery that some patients with ischemic heart disease undergo. The study shows larger gains than previous work suggests: blueprintlabs.mit.edu/research/instr…

Do school quality measures like test scores and survey responses predict long-term student outcomes? New research by Blueprint Directors Josh Angrist and Parag Pathak, Affiliates Peter Hull and Christopher Walters, and RA Russell Legate-Yang explores this question: blueprintlabs.mit.edu/research/putti…

Today, Blueprint’s SAQ Fellows joined a monthly challenge session focused on the challenges of implementing positive change. Many thanks to Jennifer Harris for leading an open discussion on how to stay motivated and foster a sustainable work environment amid challenging times.

Twenty charter school researchers and practitioners joined Blueprint’s Charter Collaborative matchmaking session this morning to build the foundations for new research-practice partnerships. Interested in finding a partner? Join our next session: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Blueprint’s latest blog post highlights new research on school quality measures – how well do a school’s test scores and student surveys predict long-term outcomes? Read the conversation with Predoctoral Researcher Fatima Djalalova and RA Russell Legate-Yang: blueprintlabs.mit.edu/blogs/research…

In yesterday's School Access and Quality webinar, Blueprint Affiliate Chris Campos presented to SAQ Fellows on who participates in school choice systems and how participation affects student achievement. Learn more about the fellowship: blueprintlabs.mit.edu/impact/mit-sch…

Both urban and nonurban MA charter schools improve students’ college outcomes, despite nonurban charters’ null or negative test score effects. Read more in a policy brief summarizing Blueprint Affiliate Sarah Cohodes and co-author Astrid Pineda’s work:  blueprintlabs.mit.edu/research/diver…

How should the U.S. healthcare system prioritize patients waiting for kidney transplants? A new MIT News article features work co-authored by Blueprint Co-Director Nikhil Agarwal that examines the kidney transplant system: news.mit.edu/2025/how-shoul…

New research by Blueprint Affiliate Elizabeth Setren shows that METCO, a Boston program that buses students from urban districts to suburban schools, has no negative effects on suburban students. Read the research: blueprintlabs.mit.edu/research/the-i…

Congratulations to Blueprint Co-Director David Autor, whose book "The Work of the Future: Building Better Jobs in an Age of Intelligent Machines," co-authored by David Mindell and Elisabeth Reynolds, won the MIT Press Faculty Book Award earlier this month: news.mit.edu/2025/mit-press…

Does attending an elite economics PhD program and working with a prolific advisor contribute to publishing success? In a new VoxTalks Economics interview, Blueprint Director Josh Angrist and co-author Marc Diederichs discuss their work on post-PhD outcomes: cepr.org/multimedia/do-…

🎉Congratulations to Blueprint Director Parag Pathak for his election to the National Academy of Sciences. He is one of just 120 members elected today, recognized for distinguished and continuing achievement in original research. nasonline.org/news/2025-nas-…

In the final challenge session of this year’s SAQ Fellowship, Fellows discussed how to navigate early childhood education site closures and help families find alternative sites. Many thanks to NYCPS’s Mohammad Al Hamdani for leading this important discussion!

This week, Blueprint’s School Access and Quality Fellows are visiting Chicago for the City Learning Visit (CLV), an immersive trip where Fellows will learn in-depth about Chicago’s enrollment practices. Read more about the SAQ Fellowship here: blueprintlabs.mit.edu/impact/mit-sch…

At the CLV this afternoon, CPS’s Iliana Vargas presented to SAQ Fellows about Chicago’s unique tier system, which assigns students to one of four tiers based on socioeconomic data for their neighborhood. Learn about how the tier system works: cps.edu/gocps/resource…

This afternoon, enrollment consultant Shannon Fitzgerald led a discussion among SAQ Fellows on enrolling students with individualized education programs (IEPs). How can enrollment best serve these students given limited resources?