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We study political dynasties in the United States Congress since its inception in 1789. We document patterns in the evolution and profile of political dynasties, study the self-perpetuation of political elites, and analyze the connection between political dynasties and political competition. We...
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In this paper, social mobility is measured by looking at the extent to which family background determines socioeconomic success. An index of social mobility for developing countries is proposed based on the correlation of schooling gaps between siblings.
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bureaucratic elite has been joining the business elite after leaving office, and this in growing numbers. This relationship has … purpose of this paper is to explain why this social behavior takes place, and why the political elite does not try to prevent … it. Moreover, this paper shows that the bureaucratic elite obtains excessive bureaucratic power, and that promiscuous …
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intergenerational framework, we show that a two-tier higher education system with standard and elite universities generates social … stratification, high social immobility and self-reproduction of the elite. Moreover, we show that the higher the relative funding for … elite universities, the higher the elite self-reproduction, and the lower social mobility. We also analyse the impacts of …
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incumbent elite is a negative function of the distance to the free world. In consequence, there are conflicting effects of …
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This paper analyses the pre-tax inequality in the income that individuals actually receive in Brazil and the role of the personal income tax in regulating these incomes. We produce a new distributional series of fiscal income, consistently combining annual and nationally representative household...
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The aim of this paper is to examine the evolution of recruitment of elites and to investigate the nature of the links between recruitment and training of elites and economic development. We show that there was a key shift at the turn of the nineteenth century in the way the Western world trained...
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intergenerational model which shows that a two-tier higher education characterised by a division between elite and standard universities … can be a key factor in generating permanent social stratification, social immobility and self-reproduction of the "elite … elite and standard universities. A key result is that the wider the quality gap and the difference in per student …
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This paper aims to explain disparities in the charitable bequest behavior of men and women. I use data on charitable bequests in wills from 17th Century Suffolk, England to investigate whether women or men were more generous to the poor when they died. Because of the difference in the legal...
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Goal structures in family firms seems of particular interest to the field as the overall orientation and the objectives of family firms are determined in an area of potential conflict between the two subsystems of firm and family. We asked shareholders of German family firms to rate the...
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