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Old Boys' Clubs and Upward Mobility Among the Educational Elite

Michelman, Valerie; Price, Joseph; Zimmerman, Seth D. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This paper studies how exclusive social groups shape upward mobility, and whether interactions between low- and high-status peers can integrate the top rungs of the economic and social ladder. Our setting is Harvard in the 1920s and 1930s, where new groups of students arriving on campus...

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Organizations, civil society, and the roots of development

Lamoreaux, Naomi R. (ed.); Wallis, John Joseph (ed.) - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2017

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The Deadweight Loss of Social Recognition

Butera, Luigi - 2019

A growing body of empirical work shows that social recognition of individuals' behavior can meaningfully influence individuals' choices. This paper studies whether social recognition is a socially efficient lever for influencing individuals' choices. Because social recognition generates utility...

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Conspicuous Consumption and Race

Charles, Kerwin Kofi - 2007

Using nationally representative data on consumption, we show that Blacks and Hispanics devote larger shares of their expenditure bundles to visible goods (clothing, jewelry, and cars) than do comparable Whites. We demonstrate that these differences exist among virtually all sub-populations, that...

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Why Don't Elite Colleges Expand Supply?

Blair, Peter Q.; Smetters, Kent A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

compete on prestige, measured using relative selectivity or relative admit rates. A key comparative static of the model is … that higher demand decreases [increases] the admit rate when the weight on prestige is above [below] a critical value … data of declining admit rates at elite colleges while counter-factual simulations without prestige fail. Prestige …

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Persistence of Power, Elites and Institutions

Acemoglu, Daron - 2006

We construct a model of simultaneous change and persistence in institutions. The model consists of landowning elites and workers, and the key economic decision concerns the form of economic institutions regulating the transaction of labor (e.g., competitive markets versus labor repression). The...

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Diversifying Society's Leaders? The Causal Effects of Admission to Highly Selective Private Colleges

Chetty, Raj; Deming, David J.; Friedman, John N - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Leadership positions in the U.S. are disproportionately held by graduates of a few highly selective private colleges. Could such colleges -- which currently have many more students from high-income families than low-income families -- increase the socioeconomic diversity of America's leaders by...

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Perspectives on the economics of aging

Wise, David A. (contributor) - 2004

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The Poor and the Dead : Socioeconomic Status and Mortality in the U.S., 1850-1860

Ferrie, Joseph P. - 2001

Despite the significant research on aggregate trends in mortality and physical stature in the middle of the nineteenth century, little evidence on the individual-level characteristics associated with premature mortality has been presented. This essay describes a new project that links...

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Socioeconomic Status in Childhood and Health After Age 70 : A New Longitudinal Analysis for the U.S., 1895-2005

Ferrie, Joseph P. - 2011

The link between circumstances faced by individuals early in life (including those encountered in utero) and later life outcomes has been of increasing interest since the work of Barker in the 1970s on birth weight and adult disease. We provide such a life course perspective for the U.S. by...

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