Does Affirmative Action Incentivize Schooling? Evidence from India

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ID19316672
AutoresGaurav Khanna (0000-0002-6846-3437, University of California San Diego, autor de correspondencia)
Año2020
Volumen102
Número2
Páginas219-233
Fecha de publicación2020-05-01
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Review of Economics and Statistics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0034-6535 • E-ISSN: 1530-9142
EditorialMIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1162/rest_a_00848
OpenAlexW2953585255
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas16
Referencias citadas36

Affirmative action raises the likelihood of getting into college or obtaining a government job for minority social groups in India. I find that minority group students are incentivized to stay in school longer in response to changes in future prospects. To identify causal relationships, I leverage variation in group eligibility, school age cohorts, and state-level intensity of implementation in difference-in-differences and regression discontinuity designs. These estimators consistently show that affirmative action incentivizes about 0.8 additional years of education for the average minority group student and 1.2 more years of education for a student from a marginal minority subgroup

Affirmative action · Demographic economics · Economics · Ethnic group · Government (linguistics) · Leverage (statistics) · Political science · Regression discontinuity design · Statistics · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies · Law · Mathematics · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · School Choice and Performance

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