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 … enrollment of targeted students due to the affirmative action caused an increase in the variance of academic ability within …

use a difference-in-differences framework to compare the college degree completion, graduate degree completion, earnings … women's college degree completion, earnings, and employment relative to non-Hispanic White women, driven largely by impacts … on Hispanic women. Thus, affirmative action bans resulted in an increase in racial/ethnic disparities in both college …

and environment, impacting students' efforts. Using two rich administrative data sets and a rule of admission at one top … university in Brazil, we apply a regression discontinuity design to study the effect of class allocation on academic performance … and labour market outcomes. The rule creates two potential effects on students: peer and ranking effects. The last student …