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 …

This article reviews the recent literature on the determinants of college major choices. We
first highlight long-term trends and persistent differences in college major choices by gender …

As the workforce has become more educated, educational decisions are about what type of
education to pursue as well as how much to pursue. In college, individuals somewhat …

This article studies the determinants of college major choice using an experimentally
generated panel of beliefs, obtained by providing students with information on the true …

Proposition 209 banned race-based affirmative action at California public universities in
1998. Using a difference-in-differences research design and a newly constructed …

Taking advantage of unique longitudinal data, we provide the first characterization of what
college students believe at the time of entrance about their final major, relate these beliefs to …

Administrative data from a large and diverse community college are used to examine if
underrepresented minority students benefit from taking courses with underrepresented …

This article establishes a new fact about educational production: ordinal academic rank
during primary school has lasting impacts on secondary school achievement that are …

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 …

Merit is a central pillar of liberal epistemology, humanism, and democracy. The scientific
enterprise, built on merit, has proven effective in generating scientific and technological …