This paper reviews the literature on affirmative action in undergraduate education and law
schools, focusing especially on the trade-off between institutional quality and the fit between …

The use of race in college admissions is one of the most contentious issues in US higher
education. We survey the literature on the impact of racial preferences in college admissions …

We examine differences in minority science graduation rates among University of California
campuses when racial preferences were in place. Less prepared minorities at higher ranked …

We examine an innovative affirmative action policy at UNICAMP, a large and highly ranked
Brazilian university, designed to enhance access for disadvantaged (public high school) …

This study explores the impact of China's higher education expansion, focusing on the
regional admission quota system, on intergenerational educational mobility and household …

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

The use of students' within-school grade point average (GPA) ranking has emerged as a
means to increase admission rates of both segregated minorities and high-performance …

In this article, economists Kevin Lang and Ariella Kahn-Lang Spitzer take up the expansive
issue of discrimination, examining specifically how discrimination and bias shape people's …

Racial affirmative action policies are widespread in college admissions. Yet, evidence on
their effects before college is limited. Using four data sets, we study a US Supreme Court …

If the Supreme Court bans race-conscious affirmative action, as expected, selective higher
education institutions almost certainly will become less diverse, reducing the rates of degree …