Episode 22: Affirmative action in Brazil -- with Ana Paula Melo

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InequaliTalks

Clémentine Van Effenterre

37 episodes

11 months ago

What is the most unequal region of the world? How deep does gender discrimination run in our societies? What happens to poor households during a housing boom? How is land distributed today? How can minimum wage reduce racial inequality? Can we really expect politicians to fix inequality? InequaliTalks presents accessible research done by young economists on one of the most pressing issues in the public conversation: inequality. InequaliTalks is supported by School of Cities at the University of Toronto.

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Episode 22: Affirmative action in Brazil -- with Ana Paula Melo

InequaliTalks

24 minutes 53 seconds

4 years ago

Episode 22: Affirmative action in Brazil -- with Ana Paula Melo

What is affirmative action? How can it increase the representation of under-privileged groups in a given field? And how might it play out in the higher education sector? In this episode, Ana Paula Melo talks to us about her research on the impact of affirmative action policies on the access to college in Brazil. She tells us about the benefits and shortcomings of this policy, and what is still missing in the existing literature on the topic.

Working Paper:
Affirmative action and demand for schooling: evidence from nation-wide policies, with Ursula Mello

Recommendation:
"Transcendent Kingdom" (2020) by Yaa Gyasi

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48570454-transcendent-kingdom