elites is that meritocracy became the basis for their recruitment. Although meritocratic selection should result in the best …

a panel data set for the US constructed from micro data, I find support for the hypothesis that within race inequality …This paper studies the joint effect of fractionalization and inequality on the size of government. Within a political … fractionalization and group antagonism reduce the support for redistribution. Whereas within group inequality increases support for …

We illustrate a novel informational feature of education, which the government may utilize. Discretionary decisions of … individuals to acquire education may serve as an additional signal (to earned labor income) on the underlying unobserved innate … education, as a supplement to the labor income tax. …

partly to the redistributive effect of education spending. In the model income inequality and growth depend in an inverted U …-tax inequality if it spent more on education. …In many OECD countries income inequality has risen, but surprisingly redistribution as well. The theory attributes this …

racial gaps such as those in income, employment, and education. Much of the current racial gap in well]being can be explained …

History is replete with overt discrimination on the basis of race, gender, age, citizenship, ethnicity, marital status … such as race, gender, or ethnicity is much less acceptable. Why? I develop a simple rent-seeking model of conflict which is …