What the Students for Fair Admissions Cases Reveal About Racial Preferences / Peter Arcidiacono, Josh Kinsler, Tyler Ransom.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Arcidiacono, Peter.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Kinsler, Josh.

Ransom, Tyler.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w29964.

NBER working paper series no. w29964

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2022.

Summary:

Using detailed admissions data made public in the SFFA v. Harvard and SFFA v. UNC cases, we examine how racial preferences for under-represented minorities (URMs) 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 larger than if they had been treated as white. For typical Hispanic applicants the increase is 2.4 times. At UNC, preferences vary substantially by whether the applicant is in-state or out-of-state. For in-state applicants, racial preferences result in an over 70% increase in the African American admit rate. For out-of-state applicants, the increase is more than tenfold. Both universities provide larger racial preferences to URMs from higher socioeconomic backgrounds.

Notes:

Print version record

April 2022.