This article examines the so-called "mismatch" hypothesis in the context of law school admissions. We discuss the … dramatically reduce the number of black law students, particularly at the most selective schools. Many potentially successful black … law students would be excluded, far more than the number who would be induced to pass the bar exam by the elimination of …

comparisons and use them to examine mismatch effects in law school. We find no evidence of mismatch effects on any students …-tier schools. Many of these students would not have been admitted to any law school without preferences, however, and the resulting …

alternative schools that still practice affirmative action. When affirmative action was banned at UC law schools, Berkeley's black … enrollment at UC law schools would have markedly declined even without the supply contraction. I find in a large sample of … students applying to law schools nationwide that black supply contractions were driven mostly or entirely by students unlikely …

their counterfactual implications. Applying our methodology to US Commuting Zones, we find that difference …

evidence on the role of these commuting flows in supporting such concentrations of economic activity. Steam railways … buildings in Greater London by 20 percent or more, and brings down commuting into the City of London from more than 370,000 to …

now working from home, including 35.2% who report they were commuting and recently switched to working from home. In … between the fraction in a state still commuting to work and the fraction working from home. We find that the share of people …

We study optimal dynamic lockdowns against Covid-19 within a commuting network. Our framework integrates canonical … districts before gradual relaxation, while in Seoul it imposes low temporal but large spatial variation. Actual commuting …