meritocracy became the basis for recruitment of elites. Although meritocratic selection should result in the best being chosen, we …

This paper use spatial econometric models to test for racial preferences in a small urban housing market. Identifying … three strategies to redress this problem: (1) we focus on housing price differences across microneighborhoods in the small … have lower housing prices. However, racial price discounts are no longer significant when we account for the spatial …

at the lower and upper tails of the income distribution. While Latin America has improved education mobility in recent …, lower education mobility than in developed countries. The paper also reviews studies on the main determinants of the region …'s low levels of social mobility, including social exclusion, low access to higher education, and labor market discrimination. …

male wage inequality on her local marriage market - the more heterogeneous potential future mates are in terms of earnings … education but the other one does not. Because of the high degree of assortative matching according to education on the marriage …

dramatic transformations in the past century. While Classical economists advanced the hypothesis that inequality is beneficial …

recruitment. In this study, we examine the effectiveness of one such proposal: the expansion of mass education. More precisely, we …

, as well as the distinct immigration experiences and spatial patterns that shape racial and ethnic inequality in …