University Quotas and Peers’ Achievement

Soledad Giardili
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Soledad Giardili: Queen Mary University of London

No 854, Working Papers from Queen Mary University of London, School of Economics and Finance

Abstract: 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 enrolment 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.

Keywords: Education; Affirmative Action; College Admission (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I23 I28 J15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-02-28
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