University quotas and peers' achievement

Arbeitspapier

In 2012, the Brazilian government passed a law that mandated all federal higher education institutions to implement a 50 percent admission quota for historically disadvantaged students. I study the implications of this regulation on the academic performance of non-targeted students. Identification rests on the use of pre-law crosswise variation in specially admitted student representation to instrument for exogenous changes in the student body composition afterward. Increased enrollment of targeted students due to the affirmative action caused an increase in the variance of academic ability within university programs. However, I find no evidence that quota-students affect the dropout of non-quota students.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Working Paper ; No. 854

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Higher Education; Research Institutions ; Education: Government Policy ; Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
• Subject: Education ; Affirmative Action ; College Admission

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Giardili, Soledad
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Queen Mary University of London, School of Economics and Finance
• (where): London
• (when): 2018

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/184805
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET