whites relative to blacks. As such, endogenous race is likely to be a quantitatively important phenomenon. …

decades of the twentieth century, significant race-, income-, and gender-based gaps, and significant increases in graduation …

/ACTs, are subject to race and socioeconomic bias. Our study investigates the efficacy and equity of college admissions criteria …-year graduation. Importantly, we take advantage of a unique institutional feature of the Texas higher education system to control for …

This paper reviews the literature on affirmative action in undergraduate education and law schools, focusing in … turns to a similar discussion of affirmative action in undergraduate admissions, focusing on evidence of the extent of race …

proportion of high school graduates who enroll in university and other forms of post-secondary education. Our results indicate …-white difference in enrollment. Controlling for parental education and baseline scholastic ability reduces the estimated impact of … without changing parental education or high school academic achievement. The racial gap in university enrollment would narrow …