PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Kate Antonovics
AU  - Ben Backes
TI  - The Effect of Banning Affirmative Action on College Admissions Policies and Student Quality
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.49.2.295
DP  - 2014 Mar 31
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
PG  - 295--322
VI  - 49
IP  - 2
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/49/2/295.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/49/2/295.full
SO  - J Hum Resour2014 Mar 31; 49
AB  - 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.