Does Affirmative Action Create Educational Mismatches in Law Schools?

Williams, Ellie

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“…Our theoretical analysis and modeling of the mismatch effect generally follows the discussion in Williams (2009). The central idea is that classroom instruction is pitched to the median student.…”

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Do Credential Gaps in College Reduce the Number of Minority Science Graduates?

Sander

Bolus

2009

SSRN Journal

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Do Credential Gaps in College Reduce the Number of Minority Science Graduates?

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Bolus

2009

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“…3 The use of the Socratic method in law school as characterized in the movie, The Paper Chase, might cause embarrassment and self-doubt in front of one's peers if a mismatch was clearly and publically displayed to an entire cohort of law school students. 4 For the law school affirmative action literature, see Sander(2004),Rothstein and Yoon (2008;,Ayres and Brooks (2005),Chambers et al (2005),Ho (2005), andWilliams (2010). All these studies utilize the BPS dataset, commissioned and conducted by the Law School Admission Council in the 1990s (Wrightman 1998).…”

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Preferential Admission and MBA Outcomes: Mismatch Effects by Race and Gender

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Hussey

2014

The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis &Amp; Policy

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We consider the "mismatch" hypothesis in the context of graduate management education. Both blacks and Hispanics, conditional on a rich set of human capital variables, prior earnings and work experience, and non-cognitive attributes, are favored in admission to top 50 Master of Business Administration (MBA) programs. To test for mismatch effects, we provide two comparisons:(1) comparable individuals (in terms of race, gender, and credentials) at different quality MBA programs and (2) individuals of differing race or gender (but with similar credentials) at comparable MBA programs. Despite admission preferences, blacks and Hispanics enjoy similar or even higher returns to selectivity than whites.

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Do Racial Preferences Affect Minority Learning in Law Schools?

Williams¹

2013

J Empirical Legal Studies

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An analysis of the The Bar Passage Study (BPS) reveals that minorities are both less likely to graduate from law school and less likely to pass the bar compared to whites even after adjustments are made for group differences in academic credentials. To account for these adjusted racial gaps in performance, some researchers put forward the “mismatch hypothesis,” which proposes that students learn less when placed in learning environments where their academic skills are much lower than the typical student. This article presents new results from the BPS that account for both measurement‐error bias and selection‐on‐unobservables bias that makes it more difficult to find a mismatch effect if in fact one exists. I find much more evidence for mismatch effects than previous research and report magnitudes from mismatch effects more than sufficient to explain racial gaps in performance.

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Does Affirmative Action Create Educational Mismatches in Law Schools?

Cited by 5 publications

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Do Credential Gaps in College Reduce the Number of Minority Science Graduates?

Do Credential Gaps in College Reduce the Number of Minority Science Graduates?

Preferential Admission and MBA Outcomes: Mismatch Effects by Race and Gender

Do Racial Preferences Affect Minority Learning in Law Schools?

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