Diversity and the starting salaries of undergraduate business school students

The authors treat racial diversity of the student body at both the college of business and the institutional level as an input into the undergraduate business school productive process, and find that diversity is positively related to improved student starting salary outcomes. The effects are meaningful—a 1-SD in increase in student racial diversity implies a six- to seven-place increase in salary rank among the 90 schools for which the authors have data.