incidents of racial exclusion. With the public education system experiencing an increased cultural diversity in student …

We study racial diversity in American law schools and the impact of state-level bans on affirmative action. To do this …, we assembled data on the number of students by minority status at every ABA-approved law school from 1980 to 2021. During … this time, the share of minority law students tripled from 11 to 33 percent. This growth closely tracked demographic trends …

race. We then decompose the differences in lifetime earnings using the recentered influence function and show that human …

inequality over time, meaning that discrimination or other unobserved factors have become more-substantial determinants of …

change are also reflected in very different patterns of inequality across (and within) minority groups, generations, and … contours of difference, along the lines of gender, geography and class. Research and policy must acknowledge this diversity and …