Are university admissions academically fair?

Admission-practices at high-profile universities are often criticized for undermining academic merit. Popular tests for detecting such biases suffer from omitted characteristic bias. We develop a bounds-based test to circumvent this problem. We assume that students that are better-qualified on obser...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Stevens, M, Bhattacharya, D, Kanaya, S
Format: Journal article
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press (MIT Press): Economics Titles 2016