20140826.2: Affirmative Action, 1981-1985

These items include materials from Affirmative Action at Marshall University from 1981-1985. Items were received in 2014 and include notable materials regarding the Equal Employment Opportunity Policy and Affirmative Action plan from 1985. This is not an exhaustive list, but the attached inventory will give a broad overview of what is contained in each of the boxes

20140822.3: Affirmative Action, 1980-1998

These items include materials from the office of Affirmative Action at Marshall University from 1980-1998. Items were received in 2014 and include notable materials about interviewing and hiring practices, sexual harassment policy proposals, and Marshall\u27s Affirmative Action Plans spanning the 1980s and 1990s. This is not an exhaustive list, but the attached inventory will give a broad overview of what is contained in each of the boxes

Writing Off Race

Because the US Constitution says absolutely nothing about affirmative action, the Supreme Court should have absolutely nothing to say about it either. Rather, the political branches should set the nation\u27s affirmative action policy, and they should do so with political leadership provided by the President. Spann considers Pres Clinton\u27s record on affirmative action

Does Affirmative Action Reduce Effort Incentives? – A Contest Game Analysis

This paper analyzes the incentive effects of affirmative action in competitive environments modeled as contest games. Competition is between heterogeneous players where heterogeneity might be due to past discrimination. Two policy options are analyzed that tackle the underlying asymmetry: Either it is ignored and the contestants are treated equally, or affirmative action is implemented which compensates discriminated players. It is shown in a simple two-player contest game that a tradeoff between affirmative action and high effort exertion does not exist. Instead, the implementation of affirmative action fosters effort incentives. Similar results hold in the n-player contest as well as under imperfect information if the heterogeneity between contestants is moderate.Asymmetric contest; affirmative action; discrimination

Affirmative Action and Its Mythology

For more than three decades, critics and supporters of affirmative action have fought for the moral high ground ­ through ballot initiatives and lawsuits, in state legislatures, and in varied courts of public opinion. The goal of this paper is to show the clarifying power of economic reasoning to dispel some myths and misconceptions in the racial affirmative action debates. We enumerate seven commonly held (but mistaken) views one often encounters in the folklore about affirmative action (affirmative action may involve goals and timelines, but definitely not quotas, e.g.). Simple economic arguments reveal these seven views to be more myth than fact.

Does affirmative action work?

After four decades, we are still debating how much impact affirmative action can and should have on opportunities and outcomes at work.Discrimination in employment ; Sex discrimination against women ; Affirmative action programs

Does Political Affirmative Action Work, and for Whom? Theory and Evidence on India’s Scheduled Areas

Does political affirmative action undermine or promote development, and for whom? We examine Scheduled Areas in India, which reserve political office for the historically disadvantaged Scheduled Tribes. We apply a new theoretical framework and dataset of 217,000 villages to evaluate the overall impact of affirmative action on development, as well as its distributional consequences for minorities and non-minorities. Examining effects on the world’s largest employment program, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, we find that reservations deliver no worse overall outcomes, that there are large gains for targeted minorities, and that these gains come at the cost of the relatively privileged, not other minorities. We also find broader improvements in other pro-poor policies, including a rural roads program and general public goods. Contrary to the expectations of affirmative action skeptics, our results indicate that affirmative action can redistribute both political and economic power without hindering overall development

Splitting Blacks?: Affirmative Action and Earnings Inequality within and Across Races

Critics have said that affirmative action is at best ineffective and at worst counterproductive. In particular, it has been argued that if affirmative action helps anybody, it helps only the highly educated cream of the minority population, and may perversely work to the detriment of the unskilled and uneducated. This study finds that minority males earn higher wages in sectors where affirmative action is prevalent, indicating that it has increased the demand for minority males. I also find evidence of this effect for both the lowly and highly educated, suggesting that affirmative action under the Executive Order has not contributed to the economic bifurcation of the minority community.