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Direct linkFrisancho, Veronica; Krishna, Kala – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2016
Using detailed data on the 2008 graduating class from an elite engineering institution in India, we evaluate the impact of affirmative action policies in higher education focusing on three issues: targeting, catch up, and mismatch. We find that admission preferences effectively target minority students who are poorer than average displaced…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Higher Education, Engineering Education, Educational Policy
