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Two Indicators: After Affirmative Action & why America overpays for subways

Planet Money

CHAPTER

The Long Run Implications of Affirmative Action

Affirmative action ends and Black, Hispanic and Native American students, on average, go to slightly less selective schools. White and Asian students, meanwhile, get to go to slightly more selective schools. Students from underrepresented backgrounds who might have gotten into that top tier school just a year before wound up at less selective schools like UC San Diego or UC Irvine.

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