complement, or even substitute for, monetary incentives. While we discuss awards in the context of academia, our conclusions …

Strong forces lead to a withering of academia as it exists today. The major causal forces are the rankings mania …,” and inadequate organizational forms for modern research. Academia, in a broader sense understood as “the locus of seeking …

We empirically investigate the existence of spatial autocorrelation between military dictatorships in Sub … positive spatial autocorrelation coefficient, which shows a spatial concentration of military autocracies. In particular, in … the aftermath of Cold War military regimes cluster in the central region. Among covariates, interestingly, foreign aid …

of a college major. Specifically, we examine the influence of fatigue experienced during exposure to a general education … assignment of student course schedules at the United States Military Academy. We find that students who are assigned to an early … morning (7:30 AM) section of a general education course are roughly 10% less likely to major in that subject, relative to …

I consider a model in which an autocrat can be removed from power either through a military coup or a revolution by the … citizens. In the event of a revolt by the citizens, the military may choose to support the autocrat to crush the revolt or play … a passive role. The autocrat determines the distribution of the country’s wealth among himself, the military, and the …

This paper investigates Becker, Hornung and Woessmann's recent claim that education had an important causal effect on … problems, notably the omission of relevant variables which leads to serious bias in the estimated effect of education. When … these problems are corrected, the conclusions of Becker, Hornung and Woessmann no longer hold. Education did not play an …

of education, inequality, and (natural) resources. We highlight two contrasting effects of education and human capital … accumulation. On the one side, education prompts economic growth and enriches the budget of the autocratic elite. On the other side …, education increases the “awareness” of citizens - capturing their reluctance to accept a dictatorship and their labor …