Affirmative Action and Pre-College Human Capital

Akhtari, Mitra; Bau, Natalie; Laliberté, Jean-William P.

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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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confidence: 91%

“…Our hypothesis is that if the employers believe AA would increase the productivity of females by changing the institutional environment faced, they would be more likely to opt for it. Previous studies have suggested that implementing AA in college admission may increase the productivity of the high-performing minority group whose relative likelihood of college entry is higher with the AA policy (Akhtari et al, 2020;Bodoh-Creed and Hickman, 2017). In the context of job applications, AA has also been shown to increase the effort of female job seekers as measured by the time spent on their applications (Banerjee et al, 2021).…”

Section: Reverse Treatmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…3 To date, existing work on AA has focused on the assessment of these policies (Balafoutas and Sutter, 2012;Niederle et al, 2013;Iba ñez and Riener, 2018), finding positive effects on female participation in competitive situations, or when and where AA is applied most effectively (Maggian et al, 2020). Others have looked at the effect of AA on effort levels of the helped group, with some finding positive effects (Calsamiglia et al, 2013;Akhtari et al, 2020;Banerjee et al, 2021) and others finding that it disincentivizes effort (Bodoh-Creed and Hickman, 2017, find that AA increases human capital investment amongst high learning cost minority students and reduces it for low learning cost minority students). Surprisingly, the existing economic literature focusing on the origins and the motivations of AA is sparse, with a few exceptions including recent work by Settele (2021).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Affirmative Action and Pre-College Human Capital

Cited by 2 publications

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The Inelastic Demand for Affirmative Action

The Inelastic Demand for Affirmative Action

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