This paper examines the long-run impact of ordinal rank during primary school on productivity using comprehensive … achievement, being ranked highly during primary school has large effects on secondary school achievement, with the impact of rank …

This paper studies how a student's ordinal rank in a peer group affects performance and specialisation choices in … university. By exploiting data with repeated random assignment of students to teaching sections, we find that a higher rank … effects. First, earlier ranks are less important than later ranks. Second, responses to rank changes are asymmetric …

. Additional analyses emphasize the role of inequality in exacerbating these rank effects. …-cohort differences in the distributions of socioeconomic status within schools in a linear fixed effects model to identify a causal rank … effect. I find that a higher rank during high school improves a student's depression scores, cognitive ability, self …

-East of England in conjunction with an universal metering pro-gramme. We document how inertia leads customers to relinquish …

domestic product or gross national income per capita to reflect also social factors (such as hours of work and equality of …

greater wealth inequality. …

equality is not valued as much, democratization reduces inequality through redistribution as the poor outvote the rich. Our …While standard political economy theories suggest a moderating effect of democratization on income inequality … first, that prevailing ideology may be an important determinant of inequality and, second, that the democratization effect …

these differences in cost-of-living. In this paper, we study consumption inequality in India, while fully allowing for non … significantly overestimate the rise in real inequality. Moreover, we show that the allowance for non-homotheticity is quantitatively … inequality when there is segregation in consumption / production, by which we mean that people's consumption patterns are skewed …