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 …

Graduate and professional education play an increasingly important role in economic
inequality and elite formation in the United States, but sociologists have not subjected …

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

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 …

This paper examines an affirmative action program for “lower-caste” groups in engineering
colleges in India. We study both the targeting properties of the program, and its implications …

This paper empirically studies the distributional consequences of affirmative action in the
context of a centralized college admission system. We examine the effects of a large-scale …

This article studies how exclusive social groups shape upward mobility and whether
interactions between low-and high-status peers can integrate the top rungs of the economic …

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 …

I study the efficacy of test-based meritocracy in college admissions by evaluating the impact
of a grade-based" top percent''policy implemented by the University of California. Eligibility …

In 2004, the University of Brasilia established racial quotas. We find that quotas raised the
proportion of black students, and that displacing applicants were from lower socioeconomic …