Mismatch in Law School

Jesse Rothstein and Albert Yoon
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Albert Yoon: Northwestern University

No 79, Working Papers from Princeton University, Department of Economics, Center for Economic Policy Studies.

Abstract: An important criticism of affirmative action policies in admissions is that they may hurt minority students who are thereby induced to attend selective schools. We use two comparisons to identify so-called mismatch effects in law schools, with consistent results. Black students attain better employment outcomes than do whites with similar credentials. Any mismatch effects on graduation and bar exam passage rates are confined to the bottom quintile of the entering credentials distribution, where selection bias is an important, potentially confounding factor. Elite law schools' use of affirmative action thus does not appear to generate mismatch effects.

JEL-codes: I21 J15 K30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006-02
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Working Paper: Mismatch in Law School (2008)
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