He is currently exploring how universities changed their admissions rules in response to affirmative action bans, and how these new admissions rules affected students»
human capital investment decisions prior to entering college.
Let me briefly mention a few steps that could be taken to increase the economy's potential over time — immigration policies that attract workers with scarce skills to the United States; education policies and job retraining programs that build and replenish
human capital; spending on infrastructure to remove bottlenecks; tax simplification and the elimination of tax policies that distort
investment and saving
decisions; regulatory policies that are attentive to costs and benefits and that emphasize getting the incentives right.