Offspring as Rents? Intergenerational Immobility in a Multi-ethnic Ruling Coalition of Medieval China

• In Event: Quantitative Historical Political Economy

Brief Overview

Original biographical data on medieval Chinese bureaucrats, collected by digitizing their excavated epitaphs, reveals a previously understudied aspect of ethnic inclusion and patronage - promoting intergenerational immobility in the bureaucracy.

Author

• Erik H Wang, Princeton University