The Direct and Spillover Effects of Large-Scale Affirmative Action at an Elite Brazilian University

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Machado, Cecilia; Reyes, German; Riehl, Evan
• 署名单位: Getulio Vargas Foundation; Middlebury College; IZA Institute Labor Economics; Cornell University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/726385
• 发表日期: 2025
• 页码: 391-431
• 关键词: college quality; students evidence; social networks; returns; peer; reputation; IMPACT; bans

摘要

We examine the effects of an affirmative action policy at an elite Brazilian university that reserved 45% of admission slots for Black and low-income students. We find that marginally admitted students who enrolled through the affirmative action tracks experienced a 14% increase in early-career earnings. But the adoption of affirmative action also caused a large decrease in earnings for the university's most highly ranked students. We present evidence that the negative spillover effects on highly ranked students' earnings were driven by both a reduction in human capital accumulation and a decline in the value of networking.