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Persistence through Revolutions
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2020
status? The Chinese Communist Revolution in the 1950s and Cultural Revolution from 1966 to 1976 aimed to do exactly that … the pre-revolution generation re-emerges today. Almost half a century after the revolutions, individuals whose … grandparents belonged to the pre-revolution elite earn 16 percent more and have completed more than 11 percent additional years of …
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Emigration during the French Revolution : Consequences in the Short and Longue Durée
Franck, Raphaël - 2017
During the French Revolution, more than 100,000 individuals, predominantly supporters of the Old Regime, fled France … Revolution, the summer of 1792, marked by the abolition of the constitutional monarchy and bouts of local violence. Our findings …
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China's Lost Generation : Changes in Beliefs and their Intergenerational Transmission
Roland, Gerard - 2017
China's Cultural Revolution to understand how these beliefs can be affected, how they impact behavior, and how they are … transmitted across generations. During the Cultural Revolution, China's college admission system based on entrance exams was …
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Why Not Taxation and Representation? A Note on the American Revolution
Galiani, Sebastian - 2016
Why did the most prosperous colonies in the British Empire mount a rebellion? Even more puzzling, why didn't the British agree to have American representation in Parliament and quickly settle the dispute peacefully? At first glance, it would appear that a deal could have been reached to share...
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The Impact of Violence during the Mexican Revolution on Migration to the United States
Escamilla-Guerrero, David; Kosack, Edward; Ward, Zachary - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
high-frequency data to estimate the dynamic migration response to conflict for the case of the Mexican Revolution (1910 …
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The Consequences of Radical Reform : The French Revolution
Acemoglu, Daron; Cantoni, Davide; Robinson, James A.; … - 2009
The French Revolution of 1789 had a momentous impact on neighboring countries. The French Revolutionary armies during … that the Revolution destroyed (the institutional underpinnings of) the power of oligarchies and elites opposed to economic …
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Hobbesian Wars and Separation of Powers
Li, Weijia; Roland, Gérard; Xie, Yang - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper formalizes the principle that persecution power of government may generate violent contests over it. We show that this principle yields a large set of theoretical insights on different separation-of-powers institutions that can help to preempt such contests under different...
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Who Benefits from Meritocracy?
Moreira, Diana B.; Pérez, Santiago - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Does screening applicants using exams help or hurt the chances of lower-SES candidates? Because individuals from lower socioeconomic backgrounds fare, on average, worse than those from richer backgrounds in standardized tests, a common concern with this "meritocratic" approach is that it might...
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Family Trees and Falling Apples : Historical Intergenerational Mobility Estimates for Women and Men
Buckles, Kasey S.; Price, Joseph; Ward, Zachary; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Efforts to document long-term trends in socioeconomic mobility in the United States have been hindered by the lack of large, representative datasets that include information linking parents to their adult children. This problem has been especially acute for women, who are more difficult to link...
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The Forging of a Rebel
Marchais, Gauthier; Mugaruka, Christian M.; Sanchez de … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We use variation in exposure to victimization of 1,537 households of eastern Congo for each year of 1990-2013 to examine the formation of preferences to participate in armed groups. In this context, most armed groups are Congolese militia, whose objective is fighting foreign armed groups. We...
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