Does Affirmative Action Lead to Mismatch? A New Test and Evidence. NBER Working Paper No. 14885

Autor/inn/en	Arcidiacono, Peter; Aucejo, Esteban M.; Fang, Hanming; Spenner, Kenneth I.
Institution	National Bureau of Economic Research
Titel	Does Affirmative Action Lead to Mismatch? A New Test and Evidence. NBER Working Paper No. 14885
Quelle	(2009) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Affirmative Action; Selective Admission; Universities; Academic Achievement; College Students; Confidentiality; Predictor Variables; Evaluation Methods; North Carolina + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsselektion; University; Universität; Schulleistung; Collegestudent; Prädiktor
Abstract	We argue that once we take into account the students' rational enrollment decisions, mismatch in the sense that the intended beneficiary of affirmative action admission policies are made worse off could occur only if selective universities possess private information about students' post-enrollment treatment effects. This necessary condition for mismatch provides the basis for a new test. We propose an empirical methodology to test for private information in such a setting. The test is implemented using data from Campus Life and Learning Project (CLL) at Duke. Evidence shows that Duke does possess private information that is a statistically significant predictor of the students' post-enrollment academic performance. We also propose strategies to evaluate more conclusively whether the evidence of Duke private information has generated mismatch. (As Provided).
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