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来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w20397
来源ID	Working Paper 20397
	Affirmative Action and Human Capital Investment: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
	Christopher Cotton; Brent R. Hickman; Joseph P. Price
发表日期	2014-08-21
出版年	2014
语种	英语
摘要	Pre-College human capital investment occurs within a competitive environment and depends on market incentives created by Affirmative Action (AA) in college admissions. These policies affect mechanisms for rank-order allocation of college seats, and alter the relative competition between blacks and whites. We present a theory of AA in university admissions, showing how the effects of AA on human capital investment differ by student ability and demographic group. We then conduct a field experiment designed to mimic important aspects of competitive investment prior to the college market. We pay students based on relative performance on a mathematics exam in order to test the incentive effects of AA, and track study efforts on an online mathematics website. Consistent with theory, AA increases average human capital investment and exam performance for the majority of disadvantaged students targeted by the policy, by mitigating so-called "discouragement effects." The experimental evidence suggests that AA can promote greater equality of market outcomes and narrow achievement gaps at the same time.
主题	Econometrics ; Experimental Design ; Microeconomics ; Market Structure and Distribution ; Economics of Information ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging ; Labor Supply and Demand
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w20397
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/578071
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Christopher Cotton,Brent R. Hickman,Joseph P. Price. Affirmative Action and Human Capital Investment: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment. 2014.