In 2012, the Brazilian government passed a law that mandated all federal higher education institutions to implement a … 50 percent admission quota for historically disadvantaged students. I study the implications of this regulation on the … academic performance of non-targeted students. Identification rests on the use of pre-law crosswise variation in specially …

to the objective to increase the mobility of higher education students... …This working paper provides an overview of the importance and tendencies of financing higher education and students …' mobility. The analysis investigates problems stemming from unequal access to financing of education and mobility associated …

labor market. We find no evidence of an increased likelihood of non-employment or geographical mobility. We find that more …