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Exploiting a novel geo-referenced data set of population diversity across ethnic groups, this research advances the hypothesis and empirically establishes that variation in population diversity across human societies, as determined in the course of the exodus of humans from Africa tens of...
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Parents gauge school quality in part by the level of student achievement and a school's racial mix. The importance of school characteristics in the housing market can be seen in the jump in house prices at school district boundaries where peer characteristics change. The question of whether...
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We explore recent policy changes which aim to equalize access to elite elementary schools in Beijing, to identify the … elementary schools through lotteries, the policy of school federation led by elite schools consolidates ordinary primary schools … through alliance with elite schools. Moreover, the designated primary school for a residential complex can change from an …
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We collect data on the movement and productivity of elite scientists. Their mobility is remarkable: nearly half of the …
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.10% and 19.93%). Moreover, our analysis suggests heterogeneous treatment effects related to elite capture within Farmer …
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State merit aid programs have been found to reduce the likelihood that students attend college out-of-state. Using the U.S. News & World Report rankings of colleges and universities to measure college quality and Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System data to measure enrollment, we...
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, encountering three years of droughts in childhood reduces an elite's life span by about two years. A remarkably important channel …
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The lawsuit Students For Fair Admissions v. Harvard University provided an unprecedented look at how an elite school …
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. Existing observational studies fail to isolate the effect of economic conditions and the effect of elite framing of these … conditions. We therefore designed a survey experiment to evaluate how economic change in conjunction with different elite frames …
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This paper estimates the impact of elite school attendance on long-run outcomes including completed education, income … either elite or non-elite secondary schools. Using instrumental variables methods that exploit the school assignment formula …, we find that elite school attendance had large impacts on completed education. For women, we find that elite school …
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