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 …

strategies to higher education. The starting hypothesis of this study is that students consider the expected utility of their …-priced education. The results of this paper confirm that both expected wages and admission probabilities determine students …This paper analyses the effects of labour market expectations and admission probabilities on students' application …