Calendrier du 06 mars 2018
PSI-PSE (Petit Séminaire Informel de la Paris School of Economics) Seminar
Du 06/03/2018 de 17:00 à 18:00
Campus Jourdan - R2-20
HOTTE Rozenn ()
Marriage Payments and Wife's Welfare: All you need is love
co-written with Sylvie Lambert
Paris Trade Seminar
Du 06/03/2018 de 14:30 à 16:00
PSE, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris - salle R2-21
BAHAR Dany (Brookings)
Diasporas, return migration and comparative advantage: a natural experiment of Yugoslavian refugees in Germany
écrit avec Andreas Hauptmann, Cem Ozguzel and Hillel Rapoport
Applied Economics Lunch Seminar
Du 06/03/2018 de 12:30 à 13:30
Salle R1-09, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
ELLISON Sara(MIT)
PATHAK Parag(MIT)
The efficiency of Race-Neutral Alternatives to Race-Based Affirmative Action: Evidence from Chicago's Exam Schools
écrit avec Parag Pathak
Several public K-12 and university systems have recently shifted from race-based affirmative
action plans to race-neutral alternatives. This paper explores the degree to which race-neutral
alternatives are effective substitutes for racial quotas using data from the Chicago Public Schools
(CPS), where a race-neutral, place-based affirmative action system is used for admissions at highly
competitive exam high schools. We develop a theoretical framework that motivates quantifying the
efficiency cost of race-neutral policies by the extent admissions decisions are distorted more than
needed to achieve a given level of diversity. According to our metric, CPS’s race-neutral system is
24% and 20% efficient as a tool for increasing minority representation at the top two exam schools,
i.e. about three-fourths of the reduction in composite scores could have been avoided by explicitly
considering race. Even though CPS’s system is based on socioeconomic disadvantage, it is actually
less effective than racial quotas at increasing the number of low-income students. We examine
several alternative race-neutral policies and find some to be more efficient than the CPS policy.
What is feasible varies with the school’s surrounding neighborhood characteristics and the targeted
level of minority representation. However, no race-neutral policy restores minority representation
to prior levels without substantial inefficiency, implying significant efficiency costs from prohibitions
on affirmative action policies that explicitly consider race.