Increasing Access to Selective High Schools through Place-Based Affirmative Action: Unintended Consequences
| Autor: | Marisa de la Torre, Lauren Sartain, Lisa Barrow |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Affirmative action
education.field_of_study Unintended consequences media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Population Test (assessment) Ranking 0502 economics and business Regression discontinuity design Demographic economics 050207 economics education Psychology General Economics Econometrics and Finance Welfare Socioeconomic status 050205 econometrics media_common |
| Zdroj: | American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. 12:135-163 |
| ISSN: | 1945-7790 1945-7782 |
| DOI: | 10.1257/app.20170599 |
| Popis: | We investigate whether elite Chicago public high schools differentially benefit high-achieving students from more and less affluent neighborhoods. Chicago’s place-based affirmative action policy allocates seats based on achievement and neighborhood socioeconomic status (SES). Using regression discontinuity design (RDD), we find that these schools do not raise test scores overall, but students are generally more positive about their high school experiences. For students from low-SES neighborhoods, we estimate negative effects on grades and the probability of attending a selective college. We present suggestive evidence that these findings for students from low-SES neighborhoods are driven by the negative effect of relative achievement ranking. (JEL H75, I21, I24, I28, R23) |
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