Increasing Access to Selective High Schools through Place-Based Affirmative Action: Unintended Consequences
研究了芝加哥精英高中对来自不同富裕程度社区的高成就学生的影响，发现这些学校并未提高整体考试成绩，但对低社会经济地位社区学生的成绩和进入精英大学概率有负面影响。
We investigate whether elite Chicago public high schools differentially benefit high-achieving students from more and less affluent neighborhoods. Chicago’s place-based affirmative action policy allocates seats based on achievement and neighborhood socioeconomic status (SES). Using regression discontinuity design (RDD), we find that these schools do not raise test scores overall, but students are generally more positive about their high school experiences. For students from low-SES neighborhoods, we estimate negative effects on grades and the probability of attending a selective college. We present suggestive evidence that these findings for students from low-SES neighborhoods are driven by the negative effect of relative achievement ranking.