The Effect of Banning Affirmative Action on College Admissions Policies and Student Quality
利用加州大学行政数据，研究禁止基于种族的平权行动后，各校区如何调整SAT、高中GPA和家庭背景的权重，以及这些调整对少数族裔录取率和学生质量的影响。
Using administrative data from the University of California (UC), we present evidence that UC campuses changed the weight given to SAT scores, high school GPA, and family background in response to California's ban on race-based affirmative action, and that these changes were able to substantially (though far from completely) offset the fall in minority admissions rates. For both minorities and nonminorities, these changes to the estimated admissions rule hurt students with relatively strong academic credentials and whose parents were relatively affluent and educated. Despite these compositional shifts, however, average student quality (as measured by expected first-year college GPA) remained stable.