Postdoc researcher @ubeconomics | Macroeconomics, development, labor | Tweets in English and Portuguese
Apr 29, 2023 • 18 tweets • 5 min read
“Income-Based Affirmative Action in College Admissions” is online at the Economic Journal’s site! In this project w/@_Herskovic and @joaoramosecon,we show that income-based affirmative action in college admissions can increase welfare and efficiency simultaneously.🧵#EconTwitter
Student-level microdata from Brazil show that high-income students outperform low-income students with similar demographic characteristics. This pattern is weakened but still holds if one compares students in the same classroom.
May 11, 2022 • 21 tweets • 6 min read
🚨Working paper alert🚨
“Income-Based Affirmative Action (AA) in College Admissions” joint with @_Herskovic and @joaoramosecon
Can college AA improve economic efficiency? What are the welfare effects of large-scale college AA in developing countries?
