Mentoring and the Dynamics of Affirmative Actions

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: MULLER-ITTEN, Michele; ORY, Aniko
• 署名单位: University of Notre Dame
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-ECONOMIC POLICY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7731
• DOI: 10.1257/pol.20190579
• 发表日期: 2022
• 页码: 402-444
• 关键词: role-models; GENDER; income

摘要

We analyze the long-term workforce composition when the quality of mentoring available to majority and minority juniors depends on their representation in the workforce. A workforce with at least 50 percent majority workers invariably converges to one where the majority is overrepresented relative to the population. To maximize welfare, persistent interventions, such as group-specific fellowships, are often needed, and the optimal workforce may include minority workers of lower innate talent than the marginal majority worker. We discuss the role of mentorship determinants, talent dispersion, the scope of short-term interventions, various policy instruments and contrast our results to the classic fairness narrative. (JEL I20, J15, J16, J24)