Are There Performance Differentials Between Quota and Non-quota Brazilian Students?

Tatiane Pelegrini (), Paola Liziane Silva Braga, Gustavo Saraiva Frio and Marco Túlio Aniceto França
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Tatiane Pelegrini: PUCRS, Business School
Paola Liziane Silva Braga: PUCRS, Business School
Gustavo Saraiva Frio: PUCRS, Business School
Marco Túlio Aniceto França: PUCRS, Business School

Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy, 2022, vol. 5, issue 1, No 4, 53 pages

Abstract: Abstract This work investigates the performance differentials between students benefited and not benefited by the affirmative action policy of racial, social, and public education quotas in Brazil. The results were estimated using Oaxaca-Ransom decomposition and the recentered influence function regression model. The data are from the 2016–2018 Student Performance National Exam (Enade). The analysis shows that the performance difference between quota and non-quota students, in the mean, is small and not statistically significant in the upper quantiles, but this difference is high in the lower quantiles. For social and racial quotas specifically, there is a drop in the total performance differential along the distribution, making it insignificant in the upper tail. The quota policy provided access to higher education; however, it may still prove to be insufficient and specific actions directed at lower quintile students are needed in order to reduce performance differentials.

Keywords: Enade; Affirmative action; Quota Law; Oaxaca-Ransom; RIF-regression (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D63 I21 I28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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