| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w27779 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 27779 |
| Affirmative Action and Pre-College Human Capital | |
| Mitra Akhtari; Natalie Bau; Jean-William P. Laliberté | |
| 发表日期 | 2020-09-07 |
| 出版年 | 2020 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Racial affirmative action policies are widespread in college admissions. Yet, evidence on their effects before college is limited. Using four data sets, we study a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that reinstated affirmative action in three states. Using nationwide SAT data for difference-in-differences and synthetic control analyses, we separately identify the aggregate effects of affirmative action for whites and for underrepresented minorities. Using state-wide Texas administrative data, we measure the effect of affirmative action on racial gaps across the pre-treatment test score distribution. When affirmative action is re-instated, racial gaps in SAT scores, grades, attendance, and college applications fall. Average SAT scores for both whites and minorities increase, suggesting that reductions in racial gaps are driven by improvements in minorities' outcomes. Increases in pre-college human capital and college applications are concentrated in the top half of the test score distribution. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Education ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging ; Labor Supply and Demand ; Labor Market Structures |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w27779 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/585450 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Mitra Akhtari,Natalie Bau,Jean-William P. Laliberté. Affirmative Action and Pre-College Human Capital. 2020. |
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| w27779.pdf（799KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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