Affirmative Action in Education: Evidence From Engineering College Admissions in India. NBER Working Paper No. 13926.

By Marianne Bertrand, Rema Hanna, Sendhil Mullainathan. 2008

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• Caste and the Indian Economy (2019, background): “Bertrand, Hanna, and Mullainathan (2010) address the targeting and mismatch issues with data on all individuals who took the engineering entrance exam in one Indian state in 1996.19 The minimum score for admission, out of a total of 900, is 480 for the upper castes, 419 for the OBC’s, and 182 for…”
• Does Affirmative Action Work? Caste, Gender, College Quality, and Academic Success in India (2016, background): “Bertrand, Hanna, and Mullainathan (2010) estimate positive labor market returns to attending an engineering college among both lower-caste groups (SC/BCs) and upper-caste groups.”
• What Explains the Stagnation of Female Labor Force Participation in Urban India? (2015, background): “Households, especially in developing countries, can use women’s labor supply to deal with negative income shocks or uncertainty (Attanasio et al. 2005; Bhalotra and Umaña-Aponte 2010).”
• Does Access to Formal Agricultural Credit Depend on Caste (2013, unknown): “In the second case, government policy might also attempt to alleviate historical disadvantage through affirmative action such as political reservation (Pande 2003; Prakash & Chin 2011), or quotas in government educational institutions (Bertrand et al. 2010) and public-sector jobs (Weisskopf 2004).”
• Field of Study, Earnings, and Self-Selection* (2016, unknown): “…et al., 2013), the effect of admission to higher quality primary and secondary schools (see e.g. Jackson, 2010; Duflo et al., 2011; Abdulkadiroglu et al., 2012; Pop-Eleches and Urquiola, 2013), and the consequences of affirmative action in engineering colleges in India (Bertrand et al., 2010).”
• Heterogeneity in Human Capital Investments: High School Curriculum, College Major, and Careers. NBER Working Paper No. 17985. (2012, unknown): “41(3):418–29 [7] Bertrand M, Hanna R, Mullainathan S.”