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Color-Blind Affirmative Action / Roland Fryer, Glenn C. Loury, Tolga Yuret.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fryer, Roland.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w10103.
- NBER working paper series no. w10103
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2003.
- Summary:
- This paper presents a conceptual framework for understanding the consequences of the widespread adoption of race-neutral alternatives' to conventional racial affirmative action policies in college admissions. A simple model of applicant competition with endogenous effort is utilized to show that, in comparison to color-conscious affirmative action, these color-blind alternatives can significantly lower the efficiency of the student selection process in equilibrium. We examine data on matriculates at several selective colleges and universities to estimate the magnitudes involved. It is shown that the short-run efficiency losses of implementing color-blind affirmative action (in our sample) are four to five times as high as color-conscious affirmative action.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- November 2003.
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