Unintended Consequences: Episode 10,598,344
Posted in Education on Jan 10th, 2011
In a new NBER Working Paper Julie Cullen, Mark Long and Randy Reback examine the impacts of the Texas 10% Plan. This plan was implemented as a defacto method of affirmative action in college admissions. Rather than giving direct preferences to disadvantaged students in the college applications process (which may run afoul of recent Supreme […]