Dear colleagues, in the name of the Department of Economics, I cordially invite you to our research seminar our next speaker, 9th of June, 2021, 5pm — NB: please note that we will have the seminar at 5pm! Juliana Londoño-Vélez https://sites.google.com/site/julianalondonovelez/home?authuser=0 <https://sites.google.com/site/julianalondonovelez/home?authuser=0> The impact of diversity on distributive perceptions and preferences for redistribution https://bit.ly/2R4M0JQ <https://bit.ly/2R4M0JQ> Abstract: Does socioeconomic diversity affect people’s perceptions of income distribution and redistributive preferences? I leverage a massive financial aid reform that drastically boosted the share of low-income students at elite universities in Colombia. Unlike affirmative action, the admissions process remained unaffected, which enables identifying the causal effect of diversity. I survey high-income students and compare outcomes across students entering college before vs. after policy rollout and more vs. less exposed to low-income peers. A difference-in-differences approach shows diversity caused high-income students to have more accurate perceptions of poverty and inequality, raising their concerns about fairness and boosting support for progressive redistribution. Juliana is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of California, Los Angeles, a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a Faculty Affiliate at the California Center for Population Research. She studies inequality and redistributive tax and transfer policies, and has a special interest in developing countries. Selected publications: • The Impact of Emergency Cash Assistance in a Pandemic: Experimental Evidence from Colombia (with Pablo Querubin), Review of Economics and Statistics, Forthcoming • Enforcing Wealth Taxes in the Developing World: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Colombia (with Javier Avila-Mahecha), American Economic Review: Insights, June 2021 • Upstream and Downstream Impacts of College Merit-Based Financial Aid for Low-Income Students: Ser Pilo Paga in Colombia (with Fabio Sánchez and Catherine Rodríguez), American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, May 2020 Please register at https://www.jku.at/en/department-of-economics/research/research-events/onlin... <https://www.jku.at/en/department-of-economics/research/research-events/online-research-seminar/> for the zoom link. With best regards, René Böheim -- PD René Böheim, PhD Department of Economics JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITÄT LINZ Altenberger Straße 69 4040 Linz, Österreich P +43-732-2468-7369 www.econ.jku.at/boeheim <http://www.econ.jku.at/boeheim> Research: http://ideas.repec.org/e/pbh15.html <http://ideas.repec.org/e/pbh15.html>