AJ Hill - Economics of Education Review, 2017 - Elsevier

State affirmative action bans and STEM degree completions.

Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation AND Program Evaluation

Hill

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Excerpt

This paper investigates the effect of statewide affirmative action bans on minority STEM degree completions at US public four-year colleges. The number of minority students completing STEM degrees at highly selective colleges falls by 19% five years after affirmative action bans, while there is no change in the total number of students completing STEM degrees. This indicates that a nontrivial number of minority students only admitted to highly selective colleges because of affirmative action graduate in STEM during periods of …

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