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Meritocracy and Representation

By Rajiv Sethi and Rohini Somanathan

Journal of Economic Literature, September 2023

A standard conception of meritocracy, reflected in state referenda and the many legal filings against university admissions policies, is that selection rules should be blind to group identity and monotonic in measures of past accomplishment. We present th...