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 consider the effects of student ability, college quality, and the interaction between the
two on academic outcomes and earnings, using data on two cohorts of college enrollees …

This paper estimates the impact of racially diverse peers on white males' subsequent
behavior toward minorities. To overcome selection bias, we exploit data from the US Air …

This Article examines and defends “safe spaces” on university campuses. Safe spaces are
campus programs and organizations that are devoted to the needs and experiences of …

Using detailed admissions data made public in the SFFA [Students for Fair Admissions] v.
Harvard and SFFA v. UNC [University of North Carolina] cases, we examine how racial …

This paper aims to understand which fields of study affirmative action students graduated at
the undergraduate level in public universities in Brazil in 2009 and 2010. Public universities …

ABSTRACT This Article argues that Fisher v. Texas does not spell doom for raceconscious
admissions policies, in spite of its call for universities to seriously examine whether race …

In this paper, we provide evidence on attitudes toward indirect past-in-present educational
discrimination (ie, educational discrimination that took place in the past but has a negative …

The Supreme Court's June 2013 decision in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin held that
universities may not use racial preferences until they have convincingly proven that" race …