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Proponents of affirmative action policies in higher education argue that the beneficiaries of affirmative action could gain academically from positive peer effects, whereas critiques argue that they could fall behind due to competition with better prepared peers. I examine this hypothesis in the context of caste based affirmative action in college admissions in India. Admission to general educa...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences
سال: 2021
ISSN: 2456-7620
DOI: 10.22161/ijels.62.38