Showing posts with label affirmative action. Show all posts
Showing posts with label affirmative action. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 15, 2023

Affirmative action in Brazilian universities: guest post by Inácio Bó

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 Recent legislation in Brazil addresses university admissions with affirmative action that targets multiple characteristics that individuals...
Monday, July 17, 2023

Affirmative action in India

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  Here's an interesting paper by Orhan  Aygün and Bertan Turhan . It comes with something of a backstory, which accounts for its quite d...
Friday, January 13, 2023

Affirmative action in India--a market design perspective, by Ashutosh Thakur, Orhan Aygün, Bertan Turhan, and M. Bumin Yenmez

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  The policy portal Ideas for India has an e-symposium on recent developments in affirmative action in India, with an informative introduct...
Tuesday, November 1, 2022

Affirmative action at Harvard and elsewhere, by Roland Fryer

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  As the Supreme Court starts to hear arguments about affirmative action in college admissions, at Harvard and the University of North Carol...
Friday, October 14, 2022

Scientific honors and gender gaps

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 Changing from an old equilibrium to a new one can involve some actions that may not persist once a new equilibrium is reached.  Here's ...
Friday, October 7, 2022

This Supreme Court term has many cases on repugnant transactions and controversial markets

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 The newly conservative-dominated Supreme Court is ready for its second term, and has a docket full of what readers of this blog know I thin...
Thursday, April 9, 2020

Medical triage for Covid-19: if/when it comes to that, how should it be organized?

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So far I haven't heard of any actual medical triage in the U.S. in which life-saving treatment for Covid-19 is rationed.  There has be...
Thursday, April 25, 2019

Should NYC school choice diversify school assignments to match applicant demographics?

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Some commentators are concerned that features closely correlated with race, for example, can be used in computerized algorithms that don...
Saturday, August 18, 2018

Diversity isn't just about role models: Alsan, Garrick and Graziani on black male doctors and patients

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Medical compliance--following the doctor's "orders,"--is a big issue in medical care, and here's an article that reports ...
Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Helping low income students with college applications

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David Leonhardt in the NY Times recently wrote about ‘A National Admissions Office’ for Low-Income Strivers , about a nonprofit company ca...
Thursday, December 5, 2013

Pete Troyan (job market candidate) on the rural hospital problem (among other things)

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Among the economists I'm engaged with on the job market this year is Pete Troyan . You should think about hiring him.  His job market ...
Friday, November 30, 2012

Johanna Mollerstrom on Quotas and Cooperation

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What are some of the complexities associated with the design of affirmative action programs? Johanna Mollerstrom  looks into the question ...
Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Legacies in college admissions

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The NY Times writes about the burden of having a parent who went to an Ivy League college: Being a Legacy Has Its Burden But, for all the ...
Sunday, July 12, 2009

Dynasties in college legacy admissions

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Along with other kinds of affirmative action, colleges are likely to give preferential status to applicants whose parents and other close re...
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Saturday, July 11, 2009

Indirect affirmative action in Texas college admissions

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When the state of Texas ruled out race as an explicit criterion in college admissions, it adopted a rule that any Texas students in the top ...
Saturday, June 20, 2009

Political pressure in Illinois college admissions

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At the University of Illinois, politically connected applicants sometimes gained admission over the protests of admissions staff. Here are s...
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Saturday, May 30, 2009

Harvard's "Z-list," waitlist admission with a difference

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Even Harvard gives favorable attention to legacies (children of alums), you are no doubt shocked to learn. But, right around this time of ye...
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