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Using detailed admissions data made public in the SFFA v. Harvard and SFFA v. UNC cases, we examine how racial preferences for under-represented minorities (URMs) affect their admissions to Harvard and UNC-Chapel Hill. At Harvard, the admit rates for typical African American applicants are on...
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Detecting racial discrimination using observational data is challenging because of the presence of unobservables that may be correlated with race. Using data made public in the SFFA v. Harvard case, we estimate discrimination in a setting where this concern is mitigated. Namely, we show that...
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The lawsuit Students For Fair Admissions v. Harvard University provided an unprecedented look at how an elite school …-ALDCs. Removing preferences for athletes and legacies would significantly alter the racial distribution of admitted students, with the …
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Using detailed admissions data made public in the SFFA v. Harvard and SFFA v. UNC cases, we examine how racial preferences for under-represented minorities (URMs) affect their admissions to Harvard and UNC-Chapel Hill. At Harvard, the admit rates for typical African American applicants are on...
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Applications to elite US colleges have more than doubled over the past 20 years, with little change in the number of available seats. We examine how this increased competition has affected the admissions advantage that legacies and athletes (LA) receive. Using data on Harvard applications over...
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better at graduating more-prepared students while other institutions are better at graduating less-prepared students and that … 209 led to a more efficient sorting of minority students, explaining 18% of the graduation rate increase in our preferred … specification. Further, there appears to have been behavioral responses to Prop 209, by universities and/or students, that explain …
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better at graduating more-prepared students while other institutions are better at graduating less-prepared students and that … 209 led to a more efficient sorting of minority students, explaining 18% of the graduation rate increase in our preferred … specification. Further, there appears to have been behavioral responses to Prop 209, by universities and/or students, that explain …
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We argue that once we take into account the students’ rational enrollment decisions, mismatch in the sense that the … student’s choice of school. This necessary condition for mismatch provides the basis for a new test. The test is implemented … information that is a statistically significant predictor of students’ post-enrollment academic performance. Further, this private …
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