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This paper uses Generational Accounting to assess the fiscal impacts of Korean reunification. Our findings suggest that early reunification will result in a large increase in the fiscal burden for most current and future generations of South Koreans. The Korean reunification's fiscal impact...
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resources by the landed elite to a democratic regime with universal suffrage--on the portfolio of public goods is heterogeneous …
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How do elites mobilize commoners to participate in a war? How does war mobilization affect elite power after the war … and after the war. By examining how pre-war elite connections affected where soldiers who were killed came from, and …
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While college enrollment has more-than doubled since 1970, elite colleges have barely increased supply, instead …, consistent with experience in elite [non-elite] colleges. A calibrated version of the model closely replicates the pattern in the … data of declining admit rates at elite colleges while counter-factual simulations without prestige fail. Prestige …
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This paper estimates the return to an elite university education over a college graduate's career using the CHIP 2013 … data. We find a substantial premium for graduating from an elite Chinese university at job entry, but it declines quickly … developed regions, where individual skills are highly rewarded in the labor market. The initial elite premium and its subsequent …
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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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We explore the role of ruling elites in autocratic regimes and provide an assessment of tools useful to clarify the structure of opaque political environments. We first showcase the importance of analyzing autocratic regimes as non-unitary actors by discussing extant work on nondemocracies in...
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revisits the question of how attending an elite college affects later-life outcomes. We expand the scope along two dimensions …
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Before the middle of the nineteenth century most laws enacted in the United States were special bills that granted favors to specific individuals, groups, or localities. This fundamentally inegalitarian system provided political elites with important tools that they could use to reward...
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This paper analyzes how changes in the concentration of political power affect long-run development. We study Brazil's military dictatorship whose rise to power dramatically altered the distribution of power of local political elites. We document that municipalities that were more politically...
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