TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Aguero, Jorge M.
AU  - Galarza, Francisco
AU  - Yamada, Gustavo
        TI  - Do Inclusive Education Policies Improve Employment Opportunities? Evidence from a Field Experiment
        PY  - 2020/Dec/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 13972
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp13972
        AB  - In labor markets where disadvantaged students are discriminated against, meritbased 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.
        KW  - employment
KW  - inclusive education
KW  - correspondence study
KW  - discrimination
        ER  -