Selective universities regularly employ policies that favor children of alumni (known as legacies') in undergraduate … policies that favor legacies have disproportionately benefited white students. For this reason, legacy policies lead to … additional costs in terms of reductions in racial diversity. As larger numbers of minority students graduate from colleges and …

Selective universities regularly employ policies that favor children of alumni (known as legacies') in undergraduate … policies that favor legacies have disproportionately benefited white students. For this reason, legacy policies lead to … additional costs in terms of reductions in racial diversity. As larger numbers of minority students graduate from colleges and …

Lower intergenerational income mobility for blacks is a likely cause behind the persistent interracial gap in economic … status in the United States. However, few studies have analyzed black-white differences in intergenerational income mobility … traditional transition probability of movement across income quantiles. We then introduce a new measure of upward mobility which …

inferences concerning group differences in mobility with respect to the pooled income distribution. This paper uses transition … downwardly mobile than whites. This implies a steady-state distribution in which there is no racial convergence in income. A …

inferences concerning group differences in mobility with respect to the pooled income distribution. This paper uses transition … downwardly mobile than whites. This implies a steady-state distribution in which there is no racial convergence in income. A …