Affirmative action with no major switching: Evidence from a top university in Brazil

Rodrigo Oliveira, Alei Santos and Edson Severnini

No wp-2022-31, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: Affirmative action in higher education may lead to mismatch, a situation where students benefiting from preferential admission struggle with their college-level work because of poor pre-college academic preparation. In the United States, those students can switch majors if they underperform in the originally intended major. Only in the extreme may they drop out. What happens when major switching is not allowed?

Keywords: Affirmative action; Higher education; Brazil (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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