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- Title
Políticas de ação afirmativa e o experimento de listas: o caso das cotas raciais na universidade brasileira.
- Authors
Turgeon, Mathieu; Sant'Anna Chaves, Bruno; Washington Wives, Willian
- Abstract
In this article, we adopt an indirect questioning methodology to measure attitudes toward the use of race as a criterion for admission in Brazilian higher education institutions. We hypothesize that attitudes toward such affirmative action policies cannot be measured by conventional survey questions because non-eligible students - mostly white students - may fear to appear prejudiced by showing opposition to them. This survey effect is known as the social desirability effect. Thus we adopt a list experiment to measure students' sincere attitudes toward the race-based quota admission system. We find that white students do not over-report their approval of racial quotas in university admissions. But, the results show that quota eligible students, Afro and indigenous Brazilians, tend to overwhelmingly under-report their approval of race quotas. Specifically, eligible students strongly approve of the racial quota system (68.3%) when provided privacy in their responses, but publicly voice only timid approval of it (29.0%). We label this effect as the inhibition effect. Moreover, we did not find a social desirability effect among white students, contrasting with some previous findings in the U.S.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; RACISM in higher education; UNIVERSITY &; college admission; COLLEGE student attitudes; AFFIRMATIVE action programs in education; SOCIAL desirability; HIGHER education
- Publication
Opinião Pública, 2014, Vol 20, Issue 3, p363
- ISSN
0104-6276
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1590/1807-01912014203363