Pre-College Human Capital Investments and Affirmative Action: A Structural Policy Analysis of US College Admissions

Bodoh-Creed, Aaron; Hickman, Brent R.

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3008669

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“…Theoretical work on affirmative action shows that getting into college may motivate students to graduate from school, overcoming effort pessimism (Bodoh-Creed & Hickman, 2018;Fryer & Loury, 2005). Alternatively, there could be complacency effects: smarter sections of the minority group put in less effort knowing that it is easier to get into college (Assuncao & Ferman, 2015).…”

Section: The Incentive Effects Of Affirmative Actionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Does Affirmative Action Incentivize Schooling? Evidence from India

Khanna

2020

Review of Economics and Statistics

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Affirmative action raises the likelihood of getting into college or obtaining a government job for minority social groups in India. I find that minority group students are incentivized to stay in school longer in response to changes in future prospects. To identify causal relationships, I leverage variation in group eligibility, school age cohorts, and state-level intensity of implementation in difference-in-differences and regression discontinuity designs. These estimators consistently show that affirmative action incentivizes about 0.8 additional years of education for the average minority group student and 1.2 more years of education for a student from a marginal minority subgroup.

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Section: The Incentive Effects Of Affirmative Actionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Does Affirmative Action Incentivize Schooling? Evidence from India

Khanna

2020

Review of Economics and Statistics

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“…Studies have found that students increase their efforts in high school in response to AA in college entry policies (Akhtari et al, 2020;Bodoh-Creed and Hickman, 2017), while in a job-seeking context AA has been found to increase the effort spent by women (Banerjee et al, 2021). Hence, we expect that AA choice in the Reverse treatment should be higher than in the Control where the AA rule is applied ex-post of the productivity task.…”

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The Inelastic Demand for Affirmative Action

Getik¹,

Islam²,

Samahita

2023

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“…A study from 2018 examined the potential influence of overmatch on wages, this time using a structural model which compares "status quo" affirmative action schemes with "color-blind" schemes and proportional schemes (i.e. where there is a proportional quota of minority students) [6]. In this model, more generous affirmative action schemes generally lead to higher average graduation rates for minorities, with little effect on nonminorities.…”

Section: Exploring Overmatch Via Affirmative Actionmentioning

confidence: 99%