Nber Working Paper Series Evidence about the Potential Role for Affirmative Action in Higher Education
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We would like to thank John Bound, Kerwin Charles, Stacy Dickert-Conlin, Lance Lochner and numerous seminar participants for very useful comments and suggestions. We are grateful for support from The Mellon Foundation, The University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research, The Spencer Foundation, The National Science Foundation, The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, and Berea College. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.
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