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Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization Advance Access originally published online on April 24, 2009
Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 2009 25(2):499-517; doi:10.1093/jleo/ewp004
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The Distributional Consequences of Diversity-Enhancing University Admissions Rules

Jimmy Chan*

Shanghai University of Finance and Economics

Erik Eyster**

London School of Economics and CEPR

* Email: jimmy.hing.chan{at}gmail.com.

** Email: e.eyster{at}lse.ac.uk.

This article examines public attitudes toward university admissions rules by focusing on the imposition of the costs of racial diversity across majority citizens. High-income majority citizens, who tend to have better academic qualifications, favor more diversity under affirmative action, which imposes its costs on marginal majority candidates. Low-income majority citizens prefer less diversity under affirmative action and would rather achieve diversity by de-emphasizing academic qualifications. Increasing income inequality among majority citizens tends to reduce the median citizen's support for affirmative action. Our results help explain why affirmative action has become increasingly unpopular among white voters and why white voters who oppose affirmative action may support top-x-percent rules like those recently introduced in California, Florida, and Texas. (JEL D72, D78, I23)


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