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Does Affirmative Action Lead to Mismatch? A New Test and Evidence. NBER Working Paper No (2009)
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@MISC{Arcidiacono09doesaffirmative,
author = {Peter Arcidiacono and Esteban M. Aucejo and Hanming Fang and Kenneth I. Spenner},
title = {Does Affirmative Action Lead to Mismatch? A New Test and Evidence. NBER Working Paper No},
year = {2009}
}
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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.
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new test nber working paper affirmative action lead private information empirical methodology campus life duke private information student post-enrollment academic performance affirmative action admission policy selective university learning project intended beneficiary necessary condition significant predictor student rational enrollment decision student post-enrollment treatment effect
