Does Affirmative Action Incentivize Schooling? Evidence from India
研究发现，印度的平权法案通过改善少数群体上大学或获得政府工作的前景，激励他们平均多接受约0.8年教育，边缘少数群体多接受1.2年教育。
Affirmative action raises the likelihood of getting into college or obtaining a government job for minority social groups in India. I find that minority group students are incentivized to stay in school longer in response to changes in future prospects. To identify causal relationships, I leverage variation in group eligibility, school age cohorts, and state-level intensity of implementation in difference-in-differences and regression discontinuity designs. These estimators consistently show that affirmative action incentivizes about 0.8 additional years of education for the average minority group student and 1.2 more years of education for a student from a marginal minority subgroup.