Would the elimination of affirmative action affect highly qualified minority applicants?
Subtitle: evidence from California and Texas
By: David Card, Alan B. Krueger.
Contributors: Krueger, Alan B.; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series ;; working paper 10366; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ;; working paper no. 10366.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Affirmative action programs -- California.; Affirmative action programs -- Texas.; Hispanic Americans -- Education (Higher) -- California.; Hispanic Americans -- Education (Higher) -- Texas.; African Americans -- Education (Higher) -- California.; African Americans -- Education (Higher) -- Texas.
Description: "Between 1996 and 1998 California and Texas eliminated the use of affirmative action in college and university admissions.  At the states' elite public universities admission rates of black and Hispanic students fell by 30-50 percent and minority representation in the entering freshman classes declined.  In this paper we ask whether the elimination of affirmative action caused any change in the college application behavior of minority students in the two states.  A particular concern is that highly qualified minorities - who were not directly affected by the policy change - would be dissuaded from applying to elite public schools, either because of the decline in campus diversity or because of uncertainty about their admission prospects.  We use information from SAT-takers in the two states to compare the fractions of minority students who sent their test scores to selective state institutions before and after the elimination of affirmative action.  We find no change in the SAT-sending behavior of highly qualified black or Hispanic students in either state"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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