Reverse discrimination and efficiency in education

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: De Fraja, G
• 署名单位: University of Leicester; University of Rome Tor Vergata; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK
• 刊物名称: INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0020-6598
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2354.2005.00355.x
• 发表日期: 2005
• 页码: 1009-1031
• 关键词: return

摘要

This article shows that reverse discrimination policies can find a justification purely on efficiency grounds. We study the optimal provision of education when households belong to different groups, differing in the distribution of the potential to benefit from education among individuals, which is private information. The main result is that high-potential individuals from groups with relatively few high-potential individuals should receive more education than otherwise identical individuals from groups with a more favorable distribution of these benefits.