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 chapter surveys the theoretical literature on statistical discrimination and affirmative
action. This literature suggests different explanations for the existence and persistence of …

Public policy in modern India features affirmative action programs intended to reduce
inequality that stems from a centuries-old caste structure and history of disparate treatment …

The increasing concentration of wealthy students at highly selective colleges is widely
perceived, but few analyses examine the underlying dynamics of higher education …

In the matched analysis of an observational study, confounding on covariates X is
addressed by comparing members of a distinguished group (Z= 1) to controls (Z= 0) only …

CALIFORNIA LAW REVIEW antidiscrimination law alone. 3 Since its inception in the 1960s,
4 affirmative action has produced volumes of moral, legal, and policy arguments both to …

The study of fairness in intelligent decision systems has mostly ignored long-term influence
on the underlying population. Yet fairness considerations (eg affirmative action) have often …

The debate over affirmative action has raged for over four decades, with little give on either
side. Most agree that it began as noble effort to jump-start racial integration; many believe it …

In light of the recent bans on affirmative action in higher education, this paper provides new
evidence on the effects of alternative admissions policies on the persistence and college …

Does the quality of legal representation matter? Intuitively, we be-lieve the answer to be yes,
and there is certainly anecdotal evidence to support this view. After all, it cannot be mere …