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Affirmative Action and the Quality-Fit Trade-Off

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  1. Armona, Luis & Chakrabarti, Rajashri & Lovenheim, Michael F., 2022. "Student debt and default: The role of for-profit colleges," Journal of Financial Economics, Elsevier, vol. 144(1), pages 67-92.
  2. Nicol√°s de Roux & Evan Riehl, 2019. "Isolating Peer Effects in the Returns to College Selectivity," Documentos CEDE 17413, Universidad de los Andes, Facultad de Economía, CEDE.
  3. Andrews, Rodney J. & Imberman, Scott A. & Lovenheim, Michael F., 2020. "Recruiting and supporting low-income, high-achieving students at flagship universities," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 74(C).
  4. Michael Kaganovich & Sinan Sarpca & Xuejuan Su, 2020. "Competition in Higher Education," Working Papers 2020-03, University of Alberta, Department of Economics.
  5. Page, Lindsay C. & Scott-Clayton, Judith, 2016. "Improving college access in the United States: Barriers and policy responses," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 51(C), pages 4-22.
  6. Bleemer, Zachary, 2018. "The Effect of Selective Public Research University Enrollment: Evidence from California," Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, Working Paper Series qt1cs1x5k2, Institute of Industrial Relations, UC Berkeley.
  7. Minoru Kitahara & Yasunori Okumura, 2026. "A stable and strategy-proof controlled school choice mechanism with integrated and flexible rules," International Journal of Game Theory, Springer;Game Theory Society, vol. 55(1), pages 1-35, June.
  8. Judit Vall Castelló & Lídia Farré, 2025. "Promoting Female Talent in Science: Evidence from an Affirmative Action Policy," Working Papers 1478, Barcelona School of Economics.
  9. Melo, Ana Paula, 2025. "Affirmative action, college access and major choice: Redistribution with strategic behavior," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 105(C).
  10. Hill, Andrew J., 2017. "State affirmative action bans and STEM degree completions," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 57(C), pages 31-40.
  11. Weng, Weiwei & Yang, Fanzheng, 2025. "Admission quota schemes and regional inequality," Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), Elsevier, vol. 115(C).
  12. Chi Trieu, 2023. "Who’s who: how uncertainty about the favored group affects outcomes of affirmative action," Journal of the Economic Science Association, Springer;Economic Science Association, vol. 9(2), pages 252-292, December.
  13. Eleanor Wiske Dillon & Jeffrey Andrew Smith, 2020. "The Consequences of Academic Match between Students and Colleges," Journal of Human Resources, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 55(3), pages 767-808.
  14. Liu, Haoyang & Song, Yang & Zhang, Xiaohan, 2022. "Moving to better opportunities? Housing market responses to the top 4% policy," Regional Science and Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 97(C).
  15. Tetteh-Baah, Samuel Kofi & Günther, Isabel, 2020. "The impact of gender and ethnic discrimination on redistribution and productivity," VfS Annual Conference 2020 (Virtual Conference): Gender Economics 224633, Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association.
  16. Francisco Costa & Letícia Nunes & Fabio Miessi Sanches, 2024. "How to Attract Physicians to Underserved Areas? Policy Recommendations from a Structural Model," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 106(1), pages 36-52, January.
  17. Bleemer, Zachary, 2019. "DIVERSITY IN UNIVERSITY ADMISSIONS: Affirmative Action, Percent Plans, and Holistic Review," University of California at Berkeley, Center for Studies in Higher Education qt1kb1b4cq, Center for Studies in Higher Education, UC Berkeley.
  18. Bonin, Holger, 2017. "The Potential Economic Benefits of Education of Migrants in the EU," IZA Research Reports 75, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
  19. Francis-Tan, Andrew & Tannuri-Pianto, Maria, 2018. "Black Movement: Using discontinuities in admissions to study the effects of college quality and affirmative action," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 135(C), pages 97-116.
  20. Adamecz-Völgyi, Anna & Henderson, Morag & Shure, Nikki, 2020. "Is ‘first in family’ a good indicator for widening university participation?," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 78(C).
  21. Anna Adamecz-Völgyi & Morag Henderson & Nikki Shure, 2023. "The labor market returns to “first-in-family” university graduates," Journal of Population Economics, Springer;European Society for Population Economics, vol. 36(3), pages 1395-1429, July.
  22. Verbetsky, Alexey D. (Вербецкий, Алексей) & Friedman, Alla A. (Фридман, Алла), 2016. "Universities’ Admission Policy and Student Competition [Политика Приема В Вузы И Конкуренция Абитуриентов]," Ekonomicheskaya Politika / Economic Policy, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, vol. 5, pages 68-91, October.
  23. Joshua Hyman, 2018. "Nudges, College Enrollment, and College Persistence: Evidence From a Statewide Experiment in Michigan," Working papers 2018-10, University of Connecticut, Department of Economics.
  24. Murphy, Richard J. & Silva, Pedro Luís, 2024. "Keeping It in the Family: Student to Degree Match," IZA Discussion Papers 16931, IZA Network @ LISER.
  25. Pedro Luis Silva, 2024. "Specialists or All-Rounders: How Best to Select University Students?," Journal of Human Capital, University of Chicago Press, vol. 18(2), pages 227-271.
  26. Felipe González & Luis R Martínez & Pablo Muñoz & Mounu Prem, 2024. "Higher Education and Mortality: Legacies of an Authoritarian College Contraction," Journal of the European Economic Association, European Economic Association, vol. 22(4), pages 1762-1797.
  27. Cao, Yuan, 2020. "Centralized assignment mechanisms and assortative matching: Evidence from Chinese universities," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 177(C), pages 255-276.
  28. de Silva, Tiloka, 2025. "Determinants of college mismatch in a rule-based admission system: The case of Sri Lanka," International Journal of Educational Development, Elsevier, vol. 118(C).
  29. Henrique Z. Motte & Rodrigo Oliveira, 2020. "The effect of class assignment on academic performance and the labour market: Evidence from a public federal university in Brazil," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2020-8, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
  30. Thomas Boyer-Kassem & Sébastien Duchêne, 2025. "Reasonable Precaution or Unjust Discrimination? Applying a Lexical Utility Model of the Precautionary Principle to Moral Choices," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 200(1), pages 175-188, August.
  31. Gandil, Mikkel & Leuven, Edwin, 2022. "College admission as a screening and sorting device," Memorandum 2/2022, Oslo University, Department of Economics.
  32. Chiara Cavaglia & Lindsey Macmillan & Konstantina Maragkou & Richard Murphy & Gill Wyness, 2024. "The mismatch earnings penalty," CEPEO Working Paper Series 24-09, UCL Centre for Education Policy and Equalising Opportunities, revised Nov 2024.
  33. Tampieri Alessandro, 2024. "University Admission: Is Achievement a Sufficient Criterion?," The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, De Gruyter, vol. 24(3), pages 799-833.
  34. Islam, Asad & Pakrashi, Debayan & Sahoo, Soubhagya & Wang, Liang Choon & Zenou, Yves, 2021. "Gender inequality and caste: Field experimental evidence from India," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 190(C), pages 111-124.
  35. Wu, Binzhen & Zhong, Xiaohan, 2020. "Matching inequality and strategic behavior under the Boston mechanism: Evidence from China's college admissions," Games and Economic Behavior, Elsevier, vol. 123(C), pages 1-21.
  36. 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.
  37. Dario Cestau & Dennis Epple & Richard Romano & Holger Sieg & Carl Wojtaszek, 2020. "College Achievement and Attainment Gaps: Evidence from West Point Cadets," NBER Working Papers 27162, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  38. Gillian Wyness & Richard Murphy, 2020. "What is the nature and extent of student–university mismatch?," World of Labour, LISER, pages 477-477, June.
  39. Lindsay C. Page & Judith Scott-Clayton, 2015. "Improving College Access in the United States: Barriers and Policy Responses," NBER Working Papers 21781, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  40. Michael Kaganovich & Xuejuan Su, 2019. "College curriculum, diverging selectivity, and enrollment expansion," Economic Theory, Springer;Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory (SAET), vol. 67(4), pages 1019-1050, June.
  41. Trieu, Chi, 2023. "Who's who: How uncertainty about the favored group effects outcomes of affirmative action," DICE Discussion Papers 405, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE).
  42. Julie Berry Cullen & Gordon B. Dahl & Richard De Thorpe, 2025. "Job Mismatch and Early Career Success," NBER Working Papers 34215, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  43. Mari TANAKA & Yusuke NARITA & Chiaki MORIGUCHI, 2020. "Meritocracy and Its Discontent: Long-run Effects of Repeated School Admission Reforms," Discussion papers 20002, Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI).
  44. Rajeev Darolia & Cory Koedel, 2018. "High Schools And Students' Initial Colleges And Majors," Contemporary Economic Policy, Western Economic Association International, vol. 36(4), pages 692-710, October.
  45. Zachary Bleemer, 2022. "Affirmative Action, Mismatch, and Economic Mobility after California’s Proposition 209," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 137(1), pages 115-160.
  46. Ritika JAIN & Vinoj ABRAHAM, 2024. "Preferential employment policies and firm performance: Evidence from Indian public sector enterprises," International Labour Review, International Labour Organization, vol. 163(1), pages 117-140, March.
  47. Rodrigo Zeidan & Silvio Luiz de Almeida & Inácio Bó & Neil Lewis, 2024. "Racial and income‐based affirmative action in higher education admissions: Lessons from the Brazilian experience," Journal of Economic Surveys, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 38(3), pages 956-972, July.
  48. W. Bentley MacLeod & Miguel Urquiola, 2018. "Is Education Consumption or Investment? Implications for the Effect of School Competition," NBER Working Papers 25117, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  49. Вербецкий Алексей Дмитриевич & Фридман Алла Александровна, 2016. "Политика Приема В Вузы И Конкуренция Абитуриентов," Economic policy Экономическая политика, CyberLeninka;Автономная некоммерческая организация «Редакция журнала “Экономическая политика”», vol. 11(5), pages 68-91.
  50. Antonio Dalla-Zuanna & Kai Liu & Kjell G. Salvanes, 2025. "Pulled In and Crowded Out: Heterogeneous Outcomes of Merit-Based School Choice," American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Association, vol. 17(4), pages 184-222, October.
  51. Luis Armona & Rajashri Chakrabarti & Michael F. Lovenheim, 2018. "How Does For-profit College Attendance Affect Student Loans, Defaults and Labor Market Outcomes?," NBER Working Papers 25042, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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  53. Fernanda Estevan & Thomas Gall & Louis-Philippe Morin, 2019. "Redistribution Without Distortion: Evidence from an Affirmative Action Programme at a Large Brazilian University," The Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 129(619), pages 1182-1220.
  54. Najam, Rafiuddin, 2024. "Closing the gap: Effect of a gender quota on women’s access to education in Afghanistan," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 99(C).
  55. Leonardo Bursztyn & Alexander W. Cappelen & Bertil Tungodden & Alessandra Voena & David H. Yanagizawa-Drott, 2023. "How Are Gender Norms Perceived?," NBER Working Papers 31049, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  56. Angrist, Joshua D. & Pathak, Parag A. & Zarate, Roman A., 2023. "Choice and consequence: Assessing mismatch at Chicago exam schools," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 223(C).
  57. Jack Mountjoy & Brent Hickman, 2020. "The Returns to College(s): Estimating Value-Added and Match Effects in Higher Education," Working Papers 2020-08, Becker Friedman Institute for Research In Economics.
  58. Oliveira, Rodrigo & Motté, Henrique & Santos, Alei, 2023. "Do disadvantaged students benefit from attending classes with more skilled colleagues? Evidence from a top university in Brazil," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 85(C).
  59. Rodney J. Andrews & John Thompson, 2017. "Earning your CAP: A Comprehensive Analysis of The University of Texas System's Coordinated Admissions Program," NBER Working Papers 23442, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  60. Sandra E. Black & Kalena E. Cortes & Jane Arnold Lincove, 2020. "Apply Yourself: Racial and Ethnic Differences in College Application," Education Finance and Policy, MIT Press, vol. 15(2), pages 209-240, Spring.
  61. Surendrakumar Bagde & Dennis Epple & Lowell Taylor, 2016. "Does Affirmative Action Work? Caste, Gender, College Quality, and Academic Success in India," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 106(6), pages 1495-1521, June.
  62. Michael Kaganovich & Sinan Sarpca & Xuejuan Su, 2020. "Competition in Higher Education: A Survey," CESifo Working Paper Series 8220, CESifo.
  63. Karlsson Linn & Wikström Magnus, 2022. "Admission Groups and Academic Performance: A Study of Marginal Entrants in the Selection to Higher Education," The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, De Gruyter, vol. 22(1), pages 155-191, January.
  64. Lau, Yan, 2022. "Does racial diversity improve academic outcomes? A natural experiment in higher education classrooms," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 78(C).
  65. Peter Hinrichs, 2020. "Affirmative Action and Racial Segregation," Journal of Law and Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 63(2), pages 239-267.
  66. Najam, Rafiuddin, 2024. "Closing the gap : Effect of a gender quota on women's access to education in Afghanistan," Policy Research Working Paper Series 10674, The World Bank.
  67. Zenou, Yves & Islam, Asad & Pakrashi, Debayan & Wang, Liang Choon, 2018. "Determining the Extent of Statistical Discrimination: Evidence from a field experiment in India," CEPR Discussion Papers 12955, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  68. Francisca M Antman & Brian Duncan & Michael Lovenheim, 2024. "The long-run impacts of banning affirmative action in US higher education," Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Oxford University Press and Oxford Review of Economic Policy Limited, vol. 40(3), pages 607-628.
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  70. Ribas, Rafael P. & Sampaio, Breno & Trevisan, Giuseppe, 2020. "Short- and long-term effects of class assignment: Evidence from a flagship university in Brazil," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 64(C).
  71. Motte Henrique & Oliveira Rodrigo, 2020. "The effect of class assignment on academic performance and the labour market: Evidence from a public federal university in Brazil," WIDER Working Paper Series wp2020-8, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
  72. Jin-Kwon Lee & Jeong Youn Lee & Hannah Kim, 2026. "Financial Aid, Tuition Controls, and Access to Selective Higher Education: A Study of South Korea’s Half-Tuition Reform," Research in Higher Education, Springer;Association for Institutional Research, vol. 67(2), pages 1-34, March.
  73. Bas Scheer & Brinn Hekkelman & Mark Kattenberg, 2024. "The Costs of Affirmative Action: Evidence from a Medical School Lottery," CPB Discussion Paper 455, CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis.
  74. Ursina Schaede & Ville Mankki, 2022. "Quota vs Quality? Long-Term Gains from an Unusual Gender Quota," CESifo Working Paper Series 9811, CESifo.
  75. Peter Arcidiacono & Esteban M. Aucejo & V. Joseph Hotz, 2016. "University Differences in the Graduation of Minorities in STEM Fields: Evidence from California," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 106(3), pages 525-562, March.
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