show that Harvard encourages applications from many students who effectively have no chance of being admitted, and that …

-represented minority (URM) racial and ethnic groups in the United States. Using data from the US Census and American Community Survey, we …

admit students that tend to struggle elsewhere. Most of the impact of alternative evaluation is found to be due to their … impact on the applicant pool (sorting), and not because of they are better at identifying successful students keeping the …

second step, we relate the sign of the impact of a denomination in a country to whether the denomination is a minority in … that country. We find that denominations that are a minority in a country are more likely to be associated with a higher … of denominations on educational outcomes. The finding of the second step is moreover robust to defining minority …

This paper examines the impact of state level political reservation for two minority groups - Scheduled Castes and …

In this study we use Canadian linked employer-employee data to examine whether visible minority Canadian … firms versus between firms. Our results suggest that both male and female visible minority Canadian-borns experience …

of alternative admissions policies on the persistence and college completion of minority students. I find that the change … students. Results show that both fall-to-fall freshmen retention and six-year college graduation of second-decile minority … larger for minority students in the third and lower deciles: fall-to-fall freshmen retention and six-year college graduation …