The report states that when affirmative action is allowed, minority students pay lower tuition, on average, and attend better schools, in some cases, over equally qualified non-minority counterparts. When affirmative action is revoked, minority access to higher education is constrained. The report also states that White students “gain relatively little in terms of well-being” with the elimination of affirmative action programs.
A decline in the number of college-going minority students is likely to have negative effects on a variety of labor market outcomes such as earnings, Sieg says.
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