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Were Minority Students Discouraged from Applying to University of California Campuses after the Affirmative Action Ban?
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Antonovics, Kate; Backes, Ben – Education Finance and Policy, 2013
This paper uses student-level data to investigate how the college application behavior of underrepresented minorities (URMs) changed in response to the 1998 end of affirmative action in admissions at the University of California (UC). We show that all URMs experienced a drop in their probability of admission to at least one UC campus. However, the…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Minority Group Students, College Applicants, Behavior Change