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What the Students for Fair Admissions Cases Reveal about Racial Preferences

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  • Peter Arcidiacono
  • Josh Kinsler
  • Tyler Ransom

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Using detailed admissions data made public in the SFFA [Students for Fair Admissions] v. Harvard and SFFA v. UNC [University of North Carolina] cases, we examine how racial preferences for underrepresented minorities affect their admissions to Harvard and UNC–Chapel Hill. At Harvard, the admit rates for typical African American applicants are, on average, over four times higher than if they had been treated as white. For typical Hispanic applicants the increase is 2.4 times. At UNC, in-state African Americans’ admit rate is over 70% higher. For out-of-state applicants, the increase is more than tenfold. At both universities, racial preferences are larger for those from more advantaged backgrounds.

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  • Peter Arcidiacono & Josh Kinsler & Tyler Ransom, 2023. "What the Students for Fair Admissions Cases Reveal about Racial Preferences," Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 1(4), pages 615-668.
  • Handle: RePEc:ucp:jpemic:doi:10.1086/725336
    DOI: 10.1086/725336
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    1. Bhattacharya, D. & Shvets, J., 2022. "Inferring the Performance Diversity Trade-Off in University Admissions: Evidence from Cambridge," Cambridge Working Papers in Economics 2238, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge.

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    • I23 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Higher Education; Research Institutions
    • I24 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Inequality
    • J15 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination

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