Showing posts with label affirmative action. Show all posts
Showing posts with label affirmative action. Show all posts
Monday, November 18, 2024

What preferences are revealed by market designs? by Oğuzhan Çelebi (who is on the job market)

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Oğuzhan Çelebi is on the job market this year (listed on the job market websites of both MIT and Stanford where he's finishing a two y...
Friday, November 15, 2024

Standardized testing returns to college admissions

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  Standardized admissions exams are making a comeback: Elite French university revives entrance exam to combat AI fears. Sciences Po reverse...
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 ...