Nepotism vs. Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital in Academia (1088–1800)

We argue that the waning of nepotism in academia bolstered scientific production in pre-industrial Europe. We build a database of families of scholars (1088–1800), measure their scientific output, and develop a general method to disentangle nepotism from inherited human capital—two determinants of o...

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Veröffentlicht in:	DP SAM 2021
Hauptverfasser:	de la Croix, David, Goñi, Marc
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Intergenerational mobility, human capital transmission, nepotism, upper-tail human capital, pre-industrial Europe, simulated method of moments
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