students, and means-tested affirmative action (AA). An AA ban would result in a large migration of minority students out of the …We study a structural model of college admissions framed as a contest between a continuum of students for enrollment in … a continuum of colleges where the contest outcome is decided by the students' choice of human capital (HC). Students …

To address the issue of when minority and nonminority candidates compete for admissions to a college, we show that an … minority. Such a quot;handicappingquot; rule increases competition and induces candidates to invest more in educational … that the non-minority responds to the affirmative action admissions more aggressively, which tends to widen the racial test …