high-frequency data to estimate the dynamic migration response to conflict for the case of the Mexican Revolution (1910 …

The Cultural Revolution deprived Chinese students of the opportunity to receive higher education for 10 years when … turned 18 during the Cultural Revolution, which sharply reduced their chances of attending college. Using multiple approaches … Revolution and a regression discontinuity approach, we show that Chinese firms led by CEOs without a college degree spend less on …

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 …

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 … suggest that émigrés have a non monotonic effect on comparative development. During the 19th century, there is a significant …

The French Revolution of 1789 had a momentous impact on neighboring countries. The French Revolutionary armies during … economic growth, especially after 1850. There is no evidence of a negative effect of French invasion. Our interpretation is … that the Revolution destroyed (the institutional underpinnings of) the power of oligarchies and elites opposed to economic …