IN an article published in this review (Antman & Duncan, 2015), we document how racial identity responds to state affirmative action policy. A coding error was recently brought to our attention that resulted in 0.55% of our sample being misclassified in terms of their African ancestry.1 We regret and apologize for this error. Although the error affected only a tiny percent of the overall sample, the correction changes the conclusion of how individuals with multiracial African ancestry respond to state affirmative action bans, from a negative and statistically significant effect to a positive and statistically significant effect. The corrected table 3 shows the updated results. The coefficients for college-aged individuals with African ancestry reported in table 5 are also now positive, but are no longer statistically significant at conventional levels. Correcting the error does not change the conclusions for individuals with only African ancestry or no African ancestry....
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October 2019
October 01 2019
Incentives to Identify: Errata
Francisca Antman,
Francisca Antman
University of Colorado Boulder and IZA
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Brian Duncan
Brian Duncan
University of Colorado Denver
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Francisca Antman
University of Colorado Boulder and IZA
Brian Duncan
University of Colorado Denver
Online ISSN: 1530-9142
Print ISSN: 0034-6535
© 2019 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2019
The President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Review of Economics and Statistics (2019) 101 (4): 742.
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Incentives to Identify: Racial Identity in the Age of Affirmative Action
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Francisca Antman, Brian Duncan; Incentives to Identify: Errata. The Review of Economics and Statistics 2019; 101 (4): 742. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_x_00869
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