Assessing the Impact of Eliminating Affirmative Action in Higher Education

By Jessica S. Howell. Journal of Labor Economics, 2010

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Education

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Race, income, and enrollment patterns in highly selective colleges, 1982-2004 (2012, background): “Indeed, more sophisticated simulations that take into account enrollment processes show that a Top Ten Percent rule would lead to a 10% decrease in the proportion of black and Hispanic students enrolled in highly-selective colleges and universities (Bastedo and Jaquette, 2011; Howell, 2010).”
The Demand for Effective Charter Schools (2018, unknown): “As in Howell (2010), this structure generates correlation between costs for portfolios with schools in common.”
Affirmative Action and the Quality-Fit Tradeoff (2016, unknown): “Structural models of how students sort into schools by Arcidiacono (2005) and Howell (2010) have been used to predict how the removal of affirmative action affects both the extensive margin (whether students enroll at all) and the intensive margin (where they enroll).”
Income Segregation and Intergenerational Mobility Across Colleges in the United States* (2020, methodology): “Finally, our counterfactual analysis follows prior work examining how alternative admissions rules would affect the composition of colleges by selectivity tier (e.g., Arcidiacono 2005; Bowen, Kurzweil, and Tobin 2006; Epple, Romano, and Sieg 2006; Krueger, Rothstein, and Turner 2006; Howell 2010).”
Does Affirmative Action Work? Caste, Gender, College Quality, and Academic Success in India (2016, background): “…in flux; the U.S. Supreme Court is now considering an important case, Fisher v University of Texas. markedly reduce attendance of minority students in upper-tier colleges, and Howell (2010) finds advantages in admission for black and Hispanic applicants among the “most selective colleges.””