TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Machado, Cecilia
AU  - Reyes, Germán
AU  - Riehl, Evan
        TI  - Alumni Job Networks at Elite Universities and the Efficacy of Affirmative Action
        PY  - 2022/Jan/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 15026
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp15026
        AB  - We examine the efficacy of affirmative action at universities whose value depends on peer and alumni networks. We study an elite Brazilian university that adopted race- and income-based affirmative action at a large scale. Using employer-employee data, we show that a key benefit of attending the university is access to high-paying jobs affiliated with its alumni. Affirmative action increased disadvantaged students' access to these firms and raised their early-career earnings. But these benefits faded over time. Further, the increase in student body diversity lowered the job prospects and earnings of the school's most highly ranked students.
        KW  - higher education
KW  - alumni network
KW  - affirmative action
        ER  -