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James Robinson and I have edited a two part series Whither Meritocracy? for the American Academy of Political and Social Science. I am delighted that Part Two: Meritocracy Around the World is now available. journals.sagepub.com/toc/ANN… Here is the Table of Contents for Part Two. Meritocracy in America Meritocracy and Higher Education in the United States Harry Brighouse @HarryBrighouse1 and Ariel H. Collins, “Meritocracy and Higher Education in the United States” Rebecca Zwick, “Measuring Merit in College Admissions” Samuel Maves and Mario L. Small @MarioLuisSmall, “Power and Organizational Opacity in College Admissions” Jake Rosenfeld @JakeRosenfeld1 and Letao Wang, “Meritocratic Pay Beliefs in the Contemporary United States” Mary Blair-Loy @MaryBlairLoy and Erin A. Cech @CechErin “Inhabited Professions: How Cultural Norms of Excellence Anchor Inequality in Professions” Lauren A. Rivera @Laurenaudrie, “Stratification by Design: Meritocracy and the Reproduction of Inequality” Meritocracy Across the Globe Bishnupriya Gupta, Kaivan Munshi, and Swapnil Singh @econswapnil, “Caste and Meritocracy in India” Ying Bai and Ruixue Jia, “Meritocracy and the Networks It Forged: China’s Imperial Examination” Pierre Nguimkeu and James A. Robinson, “The Siamese Crocodiles: Meritocratic Equilibria in African Perspective” Juan Camilo Cárdenas @jccardenas1965 and Leopoldo Fergusson @LeopoldoTweets, “Latin America’s Persistent Disorder: Meritocracy Without Mobility” Agnès van Zanten, “From State-Sponsored to Market-Driven Meritocracy? Changes in the French Education System and Higher Education Admissions” Lena Edlund, “The State and Gender Equaliyt: Sweden-Model or Aberration?” Meritocracy is a major theme of the UChicago Stone Center. Here are five podcasts stonecenter.uchicago.edu/wha… which focus on meritocracy Episode #22: Lauren Rivera @Laurenaudrie on Meritocracy and Its Failings Episode #54: Leslie McCall @LeslieMcCallgc on Intersectional Inequality, AI, and Meritocracy Episode #58: Thomas Mulligan on Acting Meritocratically #59: Jahel Queralt @jahelqueralt on the Costs of Moralizing Success and Failure Episode #63: Daniel Markovits @DSMarkovits on ‘The Meritocracy Trap. This is a live recording and may be viewed here youtube.com/watch?v=rVjRxpEm…

I am delighted that a video of the conference Who Gets Ahead and Why: Inequality, Meritocracy, and Social Mobility in the Americas jointly organized by Stone Center for Research on Wealth Inequality and Mobility @UCStoneCenter, Universidad Icesi @icesi and the Georgetown Americas Institute @GUAmericas has posted. The conference was a great opportunity to generate interactions between scholars from across the world. For the Stone Center, it was an exceptional opportunity to interact with great Latin American economists and integrate Latin American inequality into the activities of the center. Icesi was a wonderful host and Cali a great city to have the opportunity to visit. Here is the set of presentations Alexander Monge-Naranjo — A Quantitative Model for the Geography of Intergenerational Mobility in Developing Countries Francis Vella — Marital Sorting, Household Inequality and Selection Maurizio Bussolo — From Patriarchy to Policy: Norms, Votes, and Gender Equal Laws Steven Durlauf — Class Mobility in the Era of Rising Inequality (coauthors with @Butaeva_K, Weiqi Wang, and Geoffrey Wodtke) Yoosoon Chang and Bo Hu — Does the United States Contain Poverty Traps? Juliana Jaramillo — The Long-Run Persistence of Family Ties in Latin America Andrés Álvarez — Gender and Distributive Fiscal Policies in a High Informality Context: Colombia Orazio Attanasio — Inequality in Early Childhood Development in LAC Panel "How to Foster Social Mobility in Unequal Societies?"-Maurizio Bussolo · Juan Esteban Carranza · Orazio Attanasio · Lucio Esposito · Blanca Zuluaga youtube.com/live/ye8PTKByDUw