Within-School Diversity and Student-Level Socioeconomic Outcomes: Evidence from Chile

• In Event: Development and Social Policy

Brief Overview

We exploit a natural experiment in the Chilean educational system to identify the causal effect of within-school exposure to ethnic diversity on students' attitudes, educational attainment, earnings, and preferences for redistribution.

Authors

• Juan A Matamala Gonzalez, UCLA Anderson School of Management

• Michael Poyker, Columbia University