Assessing the Impact of Eliminating Affirmative Action in Higher Education

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Howell, Jessica S.
• 署名单位: California State University System; California State University Sacramento
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/648415
• 发表日期: 2010
• 页码: 113-166
• 关键词: college; school; return; MODEL

摘要

This research examines the determinants of the match between high school seniors and postsecondary institutions in the United States. I model college application decisions as a nonsequential search problem and specify a unified structural model of college application, admission, and matriculation decisions that are all functions of unobservable individual heterogeneity. The results indicate that black and Hispanic representation at all 4-year colleges is predicted to decline modestly-by 2%-if race-neutral college admissions policies are mandated nationwide. However, race-neutral admissions are predicted to decrease minority representation at the most selective 4-year institutions by 10%.