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Affirmative action outcomes: evidence from a law school in Brazil

Ribeiro, Ana Carolina Trindade

Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da USP; Universidade de São Paulo; Faculdade de Economia, Administração e Contabilidade 2017-06-27

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  • Título:
    Affirmative action outcomes: evidence from a law school in Brazil
  • Autor: Ribeiro, Ana Carolina Trindade
  • Orientador: Estevan, Fernanda Gonçalves de La Fuente
  • Assuntos: Ação Afirmativa; Ensino Superior; Affirmative Action; Higher Education
  • Notas: Dissertação (Mestrado)
  • Descrição: The main goal of affirmative action (AA) policies is to give opportunities otherwise nonexistent to minorities and underprivileged students. In this paper, I investigate whether the introduction of a college affirmative action policy enables AA beneficiaries to obtain a career in Law and to catch up with high scoring candidates who did not get admitted due to the policy (i.e., displaced candidates). To do so, I use a new dataset from UERJ admission office, a prominent public university in Rio de Janeiro, which was the first in Brazil to adopt a quota system for both black and public school students. I combine this dataset with the OAB exam passage records, equivalent to the American Bar exam. Preliminary results suggest that the quota policy improves OAB passage rates for beneficiaries. I find that lawyer certification for underprivileged students increases by 51 p.p., even though they underperform by 4.56 p.p when compared to displaced candidates. I also present evidence that displaced candidates do not experience any drop in their OAB exam passage rates due to the policy. Furthermore, I find that public school quota beneficiaries who score close to the admission cutoff present an increase in the probability of passing the OAB exam by up to 52 p.p.
  • DOI: 10.11606/D.12.2017.tde-04092017-125250
  • Editor: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da USP; Universidade de São Paulo; Faculdade de Economia, Administração e Contabilidade
  • Data de criação/publicação: 2017-06-27
  • Formato: Adobe PDF
  • Idioma: Inglês
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