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Are labor markets in higher-income countries more meritocratic, in the sense that worker-job matching is based on skills rather than idiosyncratic attributes unrelated to productivity? If so, why? And what are the aggregate consequences? Using internationally comparable data on worker skills and...
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This paper analyzes how changes in the concentration of political power affect long-run development. We study Brazil's military dictatorship whose rise to power dramatically altered the distribution of power of local political elites. We document that municipalities that were more politically...
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Human capital is almost always identified as a crucial ingredient for growing economies, but empirical investigations of cross-national growth have done little to clarify the dimensions of relevant human capital or any implications for policy. This paper concentrates on the importance of labor...
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either a concept-based, general' education or a skill-specific, vocational' education. General education is more costly to … policies favor vocational education will grow slower in equilibrium than one that favors general education. Moreover, the gap … education subsidy policy we demonstrate that the optimal subsidy for general education increases with the growth rate of …
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timing of the extensions of this right from elite groups to a broad population generally later, than in areas where there was …
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This paper begins the task of explaining why the American business elite has remained white, male and mostly native … inherently superior, but because they have had access to superior education, a result of past discrimination …
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This paper replicates a classic study of the American business elite. The older study done a half-century ago, reported … the composition of the" American business elite has changed. As in the earlier study, the business elite is compared to a …" sample of political leaders. I find that democratization of the business elite has progressed only" slightly in the past …
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This paper estimates the return to an elite university education over a college graduate's career using the CHIP 2013 … data. We find a substantial premium for graduating from an elite Chinese university at job entry, but it declines quickly … education expansion that started in 1999. This pattern is more pronounced in coastal provinces and in economically more …
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The lawsuit Students For Fair Admissions v. Harvard University provided an unprecedented look at how an elite school …
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We explore the role of ruling elites in autocratic regimes and provide an assessment of tools useful to clarify the structure of opaque political environments. We first showcase the importance of analyzing autocratic regimes as non-unitary actors by discussing extant work on nondemocracies in...
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