Transportation as a Barrier to Education Access: Evidence from Chicago Public Schools -- by Cecilia H. Moreira, Steven L. Puller, Ini Umosen

We are grateful to MIT Blueprint Labs and Chicago Public Schools for their support and data access. This research was supported by funding from the National Bureau of Economic Research and U.S. Department of Transportation research initiative “Transportation Economics in the 21st Century.” We thank Josh Angrist, Andrew Barr, Ben Klopack, Maya Mikdash, Parag Pathak, Brittany Street, Chris Walters and seminar participants at Asia-Pacific IO Conference, Berkeley, Carnegie-Mellon, Chicago Fed, International IO Conference, LSU, MIT Blueprint Labs, NBER Economics of Transportation, the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Urban Economic Association Meetings, University of Illinois-Chicago, University of Maryland, University of Missouri, University of Texas and Wharton. We thank Francisco Barba for excellent research assistance. Parts of this paper were prepared with the assistance of generative artificial intelligence tools. The authors reviewed, edited, and take full responsibility for the final version of the manuscript. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.