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 …

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

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 …

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 …

We use public documents from the Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard University
lawsuit to examine admissions preferences for recruited athletes, legacies, those on the …

Using detailed admissions data made public in the SFFA v. Harvard case, we examine how
Asian American applicants are treated relative to similarly situated white applicants. Our …

Proposition 209 banned the use of racial preferences in admissions at public colleges in
California. We analyze unique data for all applicants and enrollees within the University of …

This paper compares the impacts of providing information about college admissions and
financial aid at scale to those of large-scale policies which directly impact admissions and …

Higher education is a central institution in US democracy. In the 2010s, however, many
states that spent previous decades building up their higher education systems began to tear …