A main goal of affirmative action (AA) policies is to enable disadvantaged groups to compete with their privileged …

Although affirmative action remains controversial, little is known about who supports or opposes it and why. This paper … investigates preferences for affirmative action by combining causal evidence from an experiment on the role of self-serving motives … and in-group favoritism with survey data on three different affirmative action policies. Our results rely on a population …

Although affirmative action remains controversial, little is known about who supports or opposes it and why. This paper … investigates preferences for affirmative action by combining causal evidence from an experiment on the role of self-serving motives … and in-group favoritism with survey data on three different affirmative action policies. Our results rely on a population …

Affirmative action, or positive discrimination favouring the members of marginalized populations, is a key policy … over affirmative action is heated in many contexts, underscoring both potential benefits- for correcting historical … research literature on affirmative action, much of it focuses on a limited number of countries. This paper introduces a new …

Affirmative action in higher education can lead to mismatch, where students admitted through preferential treatment … effects of a quota-type affirmative action policy on gaps in college outcomes between potential beneficiaries and non …-beneficiaries. Using comprehensive administrative data from a leading Brazilian university which implemented affirmative action in 2005, we …

A main goal of affirmative action (AA) policies is to enable disadvantaged groups to compete with their privileged …