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 …

instruction to minority students in STEM fields. We explore minority student-TA interactions in an important course in the … students are less likely to drop courses and are more likely to pass courses when assigned to minority TAs, but we do not find … for debates over increasing diversity among PhD students in STEM fields because of spillovers to minority undergraduates …

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