We use the introduction of the Texas Top Ten Percent rule to estimate the effect of access to
a selective college on graduation and earnings outcomes for two groups of students. For …

Student access to education levels, tracks or majors is usually determined by their previous
performance, measured either by internal exams, designed and graded by teachers in …

Socioeconomic-based affirmative action in higher education has gained importance
following controversies over race-based alternatives. In many settings, these interventions …

This is the first paper that evaluates the effects of a reform requiring Russian universities to
make admission decisions based on the results of a national high-school exam. We show …

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 …

This article studies discrimination in a model in which promotions are used as signals of
worker ability. The model can account for statistical and taste‐based discrimination. In the …

This paper makes the following point:“detracking” schools, that is preventing them from
allocating students to classes according to their ability, may lead to an increase in income …

This paper studies the aggregate economic effects of diversity policies such as affirmative
action in college admission. If agents are constrained in the side payments they can make …

Many college admissions systems use a combination of GPA and standardized test scores
to determine access to more selective programs. In this paper, I study the impacts of a 2013 …

Selective college admissions are fundamentally a question of tradeoffs: Given capacity,
admitting one student means rejecting another. Research to date has generally estimated …