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 …

increases competition and induces both groups to invest more in educational attainment. When the weaker group is in the minority …

action caused any change in the college application behavior of minority students in the two states. A particular concern is … admission prospects. We use information from SAT-takers in the two states to compare the fractions of minority students who sent … admissions. At the states' elite public universities admission rates of black and Hispanic students fell by 30-50 percent and …

Research shows that minority children enter the labor market with lower levels of acquired skill than do white children … capital development of minority children. I take advantage of changes in affirmative action laws in California and Texas as a … in achievement test scores among minority children. The results show a significant negative impact among black children …