The Direct and Spillover Effects of Large-scale Affirmative Action at an Elite Brazilian University

• Tác giả: Cecilia Machado, Germán Reyes, Evan Riehl
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 869.94 *Portuguese literature
• Thông tin xuất bản: 2023
• Bộ sưu tập: Metadata
• ID: 197174

Tóm tắt

We examine the effects of an affirmative action policy at an elite Brazilian university that reserved 45 percent of admission slots for Black and low-income students. We find that marginally-admitted students who enrolled through the affirmative action tracks experienced a 14 percent increase in early-career earnings. But the adoption of affirmative action also caused a large decrease in earnings for the university's most highly-ranked students. We present evidence that the negative spillover effects on highly-ranked students' earnings were driven by both a reduction in human capital accumulation and a decline in the value of networking.