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ED528372 - Affirmative Action in Higher Education in India: Targeting, Catch Up, and Mismatch at IIT-Delhi. NBER Working Paper No. 17727

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ERIC #:	ED528372
Title:	Affirmative Action in Higher Education in India: Targeting, Catch Up, and Mismatch at IIT-Delhi. NBER Working Paper No. 17727
Authors:	Frisancho Robles, Veronica C.; Krishna, Kala
Descriptors:	Foreign Countries; Majors (Students); Higher Education; Social Class; Labor Market; Affirmative Action; Minority Group Students; Developing Nations; Educational Policy; Program Effectiveness; Followup Studies; Educational Status Comparison; Socioeconomic Status; Education Work Relationship; Social Discrimination; Employment Patterns; Equal Opportunities (Jobs); Academic Achievement; Achievement Gap; College Students
Source:	National Bureau of Economic Research
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Publisher:	National Bureau of Economic Research. 1050 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138-5398. Tel: 617-588-0343; Web site: http://www.nber.org
Publication Date:	2012-01-00
Pages:	0
Pub Types:	Reports - Evaluative
Abstract:	Affirmative action policies in higher education are used in many countries to try to socially advance historically disadvantaged minorities. Although the underlying social objectives of these policies are rarely criticized, there is intense debate over the actual impact of such preferences in higher education on educational performance and labor outcomes. Most of the work uses U.S. data where clean performance indicators are hard to find. Using a remarkably detailed dataset on the 2008 graduating class from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Delhi we evaluate the impact of affirmative action policies in higher education on minority students focusing on three central issues in the current debate: targeting, catch up, and mismatch. In addition, we present preliminary evidence on labor market discrimination. We find that admission preferences effectively target minority students who are poorer than the average displaced non-minority student. Moreover, by analyzing the college performance of minority and non-minority students as they progress through college, we find that scheduled caste and scheduled tribe students, especially those in more selective majors, fall behind their same-major peers which is the opposite of catching up. We also identify evidence in favor of the mismatch hypothesis: once we control for selection into majors, minority students who enroll in more selective majors as a consequence of admission preferences end up earning less than their same-caste counterparts in less selective majors. Finally, although there is no evidence of discrimination against minority students in terms of wages, we find that scheduled caste and scheduled tribe students are more likely to get worse jobs, even after controlling for selection.
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Identifiers:	India; United States; Performance Indicators
Record Type:	Non-Journal
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Institutions:	National Bureau of Economic Research
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Languages:	English
Education Level:	Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
Direct Link:	http://papers.nber.org/papers/w17727

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