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Title ; The Effect of Affirmative Action on Targeted and Non-Targeted Students: Evidence from Low-income Priorities in Paris High Schools, written with Julien Grenet and Yinghua He

Abstract : Since 2008, school choice in Paris has an income-based affirmative action component giving low-income students preferential treatment in high school admissions. This policy is implemented through a centralized school choice process that assigns students to public schools. Students' priorities are determined by a point system that takes into account students' academic performance and their district of residence. Low-income students, who make up about 20 percent of high school freshmen, receive in addition a large bonus that gives them full priority at all public high schools in their district. Using comprehensive administrative data, we use the implementation of this bonus in 2008 as a natural experiment to examine the effects of income-based affirmative action on high school outcomes and college access for both targeted and non-targeted students.

Dear colleagues,

Please find attached the invitation to the next Joint Seminar in Macroeconomics by Campbell Leith (University of Glasgow).

on

Central Bank Independence, Government Debt and the Re-Normalization of Interest Rates
(co-authored with Tatiana Kirsanova and Ding Liu)

The seminar will take place on Thursday, September 26th from 16:30 until 18:00 in the meeting room on the 3rd floor of the office building at Place Sainte-Gudule 19, 1000 Brussels* and will also be able to be followed via a Microsoft Teams meeting.

* Please note that due to office renovations, the seminar will take place at a slightly different location. We kindly ask you to report to the front desk at Place Sainte-Gudule 19 - Sinter-Goedeleplein 19, next to the cathedral.

We hope that you will circulate this invitation to your colleagues.

Please reply by email to nbbmacro.seminar@nbb.be if you wish to participate to this seminar or if you want to have an appointment with the speaker.

Please let us know if you will be physically present or will be following online by Teams. After registration and if you have indicated that you want to join online you will receive a confirmation email with the link to the seminar.

Looking forward to seeing you there.

Kind regards,

Pierrick Clerc (ULiège), Ferre De Graeve (KU Leuven), Romain Houssa (UNamur), Robert Kollmann (ULB), Yasin Kursat Önder (UGent), Luca Pensieroso (UCLouvain) and Raf Wouters (NBB)