Does Affirmative Action Lead to Mismatch? A New Test and Evidence

Peter Arcidiacono, Esteban M. Aucejo, Hanming Fang, Kenneth I. Spenner

NBER Working Paper No. 14885
Issued in April 2009

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We would like to thank Judy Chevalier, Joe Hotz, Caroline Hoxby, Jon Levin, Jim Levinsohn, Tong Li, Jeff Smith, Justin Wolfers and seminar participants at Brown, South Carolina, Vanderbilt, Penn and NBER Public Economics and Higher Education Meetings for helpful comments. The authors gratefully acknowledge support for this research provided by grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Duke University. All remaining errors are ours. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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