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DESCRIPTION:The The CPD-CIREQ seminar series on Social Statistics and Human
  Capabilities in collaboration with the Centre Interuniversitaire de Reche
 rche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) and supported by the Dean of Arts De
 velopment Fund\, present 'Persistence Despite Revolutions' a talk with Dr.
  Marlon Seror\, Department of Economics\, Université du Québec à Montréal 
 (UQÀM).\n\nAbstract:\n\nCan efforts to eradicate inequality in wealth and 
 education eliminate intergenerational persistence of socioeconomic status?
  The Chinese Communist Revolution and Cultural Revolution aimed to do exac
 tly that. Using newly digitized archival records\, contemporary census and
  household survey data\, we show that the revolutions were effective in ho
 mogenizing the population economically in the short run. However\, the pat
 tern of inequality that characterized the pre-revolution generation re-eme
 rges almost half a century after the revolutions. Individuals whose grandp
 arents belonged to the pre-revolution elite earn 12 percent more income an
 d have completed more than 11 percent additional years of schooling than t
 hose from the rest of the population. We find evidence that human capital 
 (such as knowledge\, skills\, and values) has been transmitted within the 
 elite families. Moreover\, the pre-revolution elite either move to opportu
 nities or stay to benefit from the social capital embodied in kinship netw
 orks that have survived the revolutions. These channels allow the pre-revo
 lution elite to rebound after the revolutions\, and their socioeconomic st
 atus persists despite one of the most aggressive attempts to eliminate dif
 ferences in the population.\n\nCo-auhtors: Alberto Alesina\, David Y. Yang
 \, Yang You\, Weihong Zeng\n\nLink to paper: https://marlonseror.github.io
 /papers/Persistence_Despite_Revolutions.pdf  \n\nLocation:\n\nThis is an i
 n-person event held in Leacock Building\, Room 429 (4th Floor).\n\nSpeaker
 \n\n\n\nProf. Seror is an assistant professor in the Department of Economi
 cs at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). His research stands at t
 he crossroads of Development Economics\, Urban Economics\, and Economic Hi
 story. It relies extensively on original data and GIS techniques.\n\nLearn
  more.\n\n \n\n \n\nSupported by the Dean of Arts Development Fund\n\n\n\n
  \n
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SUMMARY:CPD-CIREQ seminar series on Social Statistics and Human Capabilitie
 s - Marlon SEROR - Apr. 12\, 2023
URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/channels/channels/event/cpd-cireq-seminar-series-
 social-statistics-and-human-capabilities-marlon-seror-apr-12-2023-347084
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