University Admission:Is Achievement a Sufficient Criterion?

Alessandro Tampieri

Working Papers - Economics from Universita' degli Studi di Firenze, Dipartimento di Scienze per l'Economia e l'Impresa

Abstract: We analyse university admission through a statistical discrimination model where students differ in ability and social groups. Universities aim to enrol the students with the best human capital, which is given by their innate ability and of the learning carried outwhile at school. Students and school choose their learning and teaching effort based onthe behaviour of universities. Interestingly, we find that students from less advantaged groups need a lower grade to be admitted to the best universities, while less competitive universities do the opposite. If a university cannot discriminate according to social groups, all students with same grade will attend universities of the same quality, with different levels of human capital according to their social group.

Keywords: discrimination; affermative action; studying effort; teaching effort. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 I23 J71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32 pages
Date: 2019
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