College affirmative action bans and smoking and alcohol use among underrepresented minority adolescents in the United States: A difference-in-differences study.
Atheendar S VenkataramaniErin E CookRourke L O'BrienIchiro KawachiAnupam B JenaAlexander C TsaiPublished in: PLoS medicine (2019)
In this study, we found evidence that some health risk behaviors increased among underrepresented minority adolescents after exposure to state-level college affirmative action bans. These findings suggest that social policies that shift socioeconomic opportunities could have meaningful population health consequences.