Albert Yoon

University of Toronto

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Trial and Settlement: A Study of High-Low Agreements
March 2014 - Working Paper19873
Author(s) - J.J. Prescott, Kathryn E. Spier & Albert Yoon
This paper presents the first systematic theoretical and empirical study of high-low agreements in civil litigation. A high-low agreement is a private contract that, if signed by litigants before the conclusion of a trial, constrains any plaintiff recovery to a specified range. Whereas existing work...
Mismatch in Law School
August 2008 - Working Paper14275
Author(s) - Jesse Rothstein & Albert Yoon
An important criticism of race-based higher education admission preferences is that they may hurt minority students who attend more selective schools than they would in the absence of such preferences. We categorize the non-experimental research designs available for the study of so-called "mismatch...
Affirmative Action in Law School Admissions: What Do Racial Preferences Do?
August 2008 - Working Paper14276
Author(s) - Jesse Rothstein & Albert H. Yoon
The Supreme Court has held repeatedly that race-based preferences in public university admissions are constitutional. But debates over the wisdom of affirmative action continue. Opponents of these policies argue that preferences are detrimental to minority students -- that by placing these students...
The Effect of Brown v. Board of Education on Blacks' Earnings
December 1, 2005 - Article
Author(s) - Orley C. Ashenfelter, William J. Collins & Albert Yoon
Better schools and school desegregation tended to raise the earnings of southern-born African-American men, but not all of that progress can be attributed to the Supreme Court's 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education. The public profile of that landmark ruling overshadows the slow, long-term...
Evaluating the Role of Brown vs. Board of Education in School Equalization, Desegregation, and the Income of African Americans
June 2005 - Working Paper11394
Author(s) - Orley Ashenfelter, William J. Collins & Albert Yoon
In this paper we study the long-term labor market implications of school resource equalization before Brown and school desegregation after Brown. For cohorts born in the South in the 1920s and 1930s, we find that racial disparities in measurable school characteristics had a substantial influence on...
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