We analyze the long-term workforce composition when quality of mentoring available to majority and minority juniors depends on their representation in workforce. A with at least 50 percent workers invariably converges one where is overrepresented relative population. To maximize welfare, persistent interventions, such as group-specific fellowships, are often needed, optimal may include lower in...

This paper assesses the extent to which schools in the University of California (UC) system were able to restore racial diversity among admitted students using race-neutral polices after California’s ban on racebased affirmative action. Using administrative data from the UC from before and after the ban on racecontingent admissions policies, we present evidence that UC campuses changed the weig...

two warring camps, each of which stakes a mutually exclusive claim to moral virtue. Defenders of affirmative action cast themselves as the champions of racial justice and the keepers of Dr. King’s dream. Opponents of affirmative action cast themselves as champions of the true color-blind intent of cherished American values.” (Bobo, 1998; p. 985) One characteristic of the debate over affirmative...