Affirmative Action in Undergraduate Education

Annual Review of Economics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 487-518

  Arcidiacono, Peter ^a,b   Lovenheim, Michael ^b,c   Zhu, Maria ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

College admissions; College quality; Higher education; Race

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938563100     PISSN: 19411383     EISSN: 19411391     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-economics-080614-115445     Document Type: Article

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