@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp13972,
            	author={Aguero, Jorge M. and Galarza, Francisco and Yamada, Gustavo},
            	title={Do Inclusive Education Policies Improve Employment Opportunities? Evidence from a Field Experiment},
            	year={2020},
	month={Dec},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={13972},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp13972},
	abstract={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.},
	keywords={employment;inclusive education;correspondence study;discrimination},
            }