Biblioteca Digital de VanguardiaDo inclusive education policies improve employment opportunities?: evidence from a field experiment
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 h...
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Universidad del Pacífico. Centro de Investigación
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| author | Monge Agüero, Jorge Galarza, Francisco Yamada Fukusaki, Gustavo |
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| description | 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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| spelling | clacso-CLACSO521142022-03-17T18:39:56Z Do inclusive education policies improve employment opportunities?: evidence from a field experiment Monge Agüero, Jorge Galarza, Francisco Yamada Fukusaki, Gustavo Programa Nacional Beca 18 (Perú) Educación superior--Perú Educación inclusiva--Perú Discriminación en el trabajo--Perú Mercado laboral--Perú Egresados universitarios--Trabajo--Perú 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. 2020-12 2022-03-17T18:39:56Z 2022-03-17T18:39:56Z info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper https://hdl.handle.net/11354/3104 http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/52114 eng info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 4.0 Internacional application/pdf application/pdf Universidad del Pacífico. Centro de Investigación |
| spellingShingle | Programa Nacional Beca 18 (Perú) Educación superior--Perú Educación inclusiva--Perú Discriminación en el trabajo--Perú Mercado laboral--Perú Egresados universitarios--Trabajo--Perú Monge Agüero, Jorge Galarza, Francisco Yamada Fukusaki, Gustavo Do inclusive education policies improve employment opportunities?: evidence from a field experiment |
| title | Do inclusive education policies improve employment opportunities?: evidence from a field experiment |
| title_full | Do inclusive education policies improve employment opportunities?: evidence from a field experiment |
| title_fullStr | Do inclusive education policies improve employment opportunities?: evidence from a field experiment |
| title_full_unstemmed | Do inclusive education policies improve employment opportunities?: evidence from a field experiment |
| title_short | Do inclusive education policies improve employment opportunities?: evidence from a field experiment |
| title_sort | do inclusive education policies improve employment opportunities?: evidence from a field experiment |
| topic | Programa Nacional Beca 18 (Perú) Educación superior--Perú Educación inclusiva--Perú Discriminación en el trabajo--Perú Mercado laboral--Perú Egresados universitarios--Trabajo--Perú |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/11354/3104 http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/52114 |