Transparency and Percent Plans

First draft October 2015. This paper was previously circulated under the title “Distributional Effects of Race-Blind Affirmative Action”. I thank Phil Haile, Joseph Altonji, Costas Meghir, and Steve Berry for their guidance and support. I thank Sofia Moroni, Chris Neilson, Marta Tienda, Paulo Somaini, and Seth Zimmerman for helpful discussions and comments. I thank seminar participants at Boston College, Columbia, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Michigan, Notre Dame, NYU Stern, Penn, Princeton, Toulouse, Stanford GSB, UCL, UIUC, Wisconsin, WUSTL, and Yale. I gratefully acknowledge financial support from the Cowles Foundation, the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, and a Yale University Dissertation Fellowship. These data require the following acknowledgment: This research uses data from THEOP, a project directed by Marta Tienda, at Princeton University, in collaboration with Teresa A. Sullivan, formerly at the University of Texas at Austin. This research [THEOP] was supported by grants from the Ford, Mellon and Hewlett Foundations and NSF (Grant SES-0350990). THEOP gratefully acknowledges institutional support from Princeton University’s Office of Population Research (NICHD Grant R24 H0047879). Special Acknowledgement is due to Dawn Koffman, for preparing and documenting data for public use, and to Sunny X. Niu, who has been a stalwart collaborator and co-investigator. The views expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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• April 23, 2024