Affirmative Action in Centralized College Admissions Systems -- by Nano Barahona, Cauê Dobbin, Sebastián Otero

We are indebted to Pascaline Dupas, Liran Einav, Matthew Gentzkow, Caroline Hoxby, and Paulo Somaini for invaluable guidance and support on this project. We also thank Claudia Allende, Luis Armona, Zachary Bleemer, Christopher Campos, José Ignacio Cuesta, Michael Dinerstein, Diego Jiménez, Patrick Kline, Tomás Larroucau, Neale Mahoney, Ursula Mello, Pablo Muñoz, Christopher Neilson, Cristóbal Otero, Pietro Tebaldi, Miguel Urquiola, Christopher Walters, and seminar participants at Stanford University for valuable comments and suggestions. We are grateful to Anna Popova for her insights, patience, and dedication to making this article better. We gratefully acknowledge financial support from the Stanford King Center on Global Development, Stanford Center for Computational Social Sciences, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Haley-Shaw Dissertation Fellowship, and NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship Program. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.