Increasing Access to Selective High Schools through Place-Based Affirmative Action: Unintended Consequences

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Barrow, Lisa; Sartain, Lauren; de la Torre, Marisa
• 署名单位: Federal Reserve System - USA; Federal Reserve Bank - Chicago; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-APPLIED ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7782
• DOI: 10.1257/app.20170599
• 发表日期: 2020
• 页码: 135-163
• 关键词: regression-discontinuity; poverty groups; ETHNICITY; success; GENDER; IMPACT

摘要

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.