Wow, this was treated pretty well wrt stats, almost like a clinical trial. The article makes it sound like just an anecdote.

Applied microeconomics is full of these sort of studies. It thrives on finding "natural experiments" to exploit and identify/measure an effect.

Nice to see such a great paper from a fellow CUNY grad. NY's city college system is underrated.

I mean CUNY is objectively a great school. It's just overshadowed by NYU

Isn't the SUNY system generally better regarded as well? New York does a pretty good job overall with affordable public universities.