Hosted by the International Inequalities Institute on Tuesday 7 November.

Speaker:
Dr Valentina Contreras, Research Officer, LSE III

Chair:
Dr H. Xavier Jara, Research Officer, LSE III

This seminar exploits the sudden timing of a reform in the Chilean centralized university admission system to analyze the role of structural factors, such as admission criteria, in the gender imbalances in higher education. The reform introduced a new admission criterion that improved the application scores for students who graduate with a GPA higher than their high school average. In addition, the reform lowered the weight given to high-stakes measures of achievement, such as standardized admission tests. It finds that the reform raised the application scores of women relative to men, and impacted students' career choices.

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