makes admissions decisions. Using publicly released reports, we examine the preferences Harvard gives for recruited athletes …-ALDCs. Removing preferences for athletes and legacies would significantly alter the racial distribution of admitted students, with the …

available seats. We examine how this increased competition has affected the admissions advantage that legacies and athletes (LA … admissions advantages for legacies and athletes. We develop a simple theoretical model of university admissions to frame our …

– truancy among active male athletes declines significantly, with the effects larger in earlier grades and for black and …

Barriers to outsourcing that are being currently implemented in the US effectively tax its companies who "export" jobs … oligopolistic context. We find that while an outsourcing tax favors domestic workers by causing firms to switch to a greater use of … effects, which inform us about the conditions under which such a tax achieves its stated objective. Next, we consider the …

We examine ways of funding higher education, comparing upfront tuition fees with graduate taxes. The tax dominates, as … endogenized. We show that graduate taxes reduce work incentives but provide incentives to improve teaching quality. Yet if tax … allocated the revenue generated by its own alumni. In addition, we demonstrate how a budget-balancing graduate tax would …