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Do inclusive education policies improve employment opportunities?: evidence from a field experiment 

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  • Agüero, Jorge

    (Universidad del Pacífico)

  • Galarza, Francisco

    (Universidad del Pacífico)

  • Fukusaki, Gustavo

    (Universidad del Pacífico)

Abstract
In labor markets where disadvantaged students are discriminated against, merit-based college scholarships targeting these students could convey two opposing signals to employers. There is a positive signal reflecting the candidate’s cognitive ability (talented in high-school and able to maintain a high GPA in college) as well as her soft skills (overcoming poverty). There is also a possible negative signal as the targeting of the scholarship indicates that the beneficiary comes from a disadvantaged household. We conduct a correspondence study to analyze the labor market impact of an inclusive education program. Beca 18 provides merit-based scholarships to talented poor students admitted to 3-year and 5-year colleges in Peru. We find that the positive signal dominates. Including information of being a scholarship recipient increases the likelihood of getting a callback for a job interview by 20%. However, the effect is much smaller in jobs and careers where the poor are under-represented, suggesting that the negative signal of the scholarship is not zero.

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  • Agüero, Jorge & Galarza, Francisco & Fukusaki, Gustavo, 2020. "Do inclusive education policies improve employment opportunities?: evidence from a field experiment ," Working Papers 20-01, Centro de Investigación, Universidad del Pacífico.
    • Handle: RePEc:pai:wpaper:20-01
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    Keywords

    Employment; inclusive education; correspondence study; discrimination.;
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    JEL classification:

    • C93 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Field Experiments
    • I23 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Higher Education; Research Institutions
    • J7 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination
    • J15 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination

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