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See all eventsEdoardo Teso, Northwestern State Capacity as an Organizational Problem. Evidence from the Growth of the U.S. State Over 100 Years Abstract: We study how the organization of the state evolves over the process of development of a nation, using a new dataset on the internal organization of the U.S. federal bureaucracy over 1817-1905. First, we show a series of novel facts, describing how the size of the state, its presence across the territory, and its key organizational features evolved over the nineteenth century. Second, exploiting the staggered expansion of the railroad and telegraph networks across space, we show that the ability of politicians to monitor state agents throughout the territory is an important driver of these facts: locations with lower transportation and communication costs with Washington DC have more state presence, are delegated more decision power, and have lower employee turnover. The results suggest that high monitoring costs are associated with small, personalistic state organizations based on networks of trust; technological innovations lowering monitoring costs facilitate the emergence of modern bureaucratic states.
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The ILR Future of Work fellowship program supports postdoctoral researchers and doctoral students who work with our world-leading faculty on innovative and impactful research projects.
This fellowship program is designed to promote the benefits of strong collaboration between newer researchers and resident faculty members in studying impactful topics related to the future of work. Fellows and their faculty sponsors alike are enabled to address challenging research questions and break out of any stereotypes or default thinking around the future of work.
Professor Martin Wells has been elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world's largest general scientific society.
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Join us on Tuesday, May 7th at 4pm in the Golden Courtyard for the reveal of the new ILR graduation flag! Ice cream will be served and Dean Colvin say a few words before the unveiling of the flag. You can also meet the students who designed the flag! The new flag will symbolize the ILR School at…
Here’s a blast from the past with some ILR events. The first set of pictures is from the ILR Groat and Alpern event, and the second set is from the ILR Labor and Advocacy Career Fair. Both of these events are hosted annually by ILR. #ilr #cornellilr #ilrschool #ilrbaddies #cornell
ILRies had so much fun meeting alumni last week at MILRSO’s Multicultural Leadership Summit! Thank you so much to all of the amazing alumni for taking the time to mentor and connect with students! #cornellilr #cornell2028 #cornelluniversity
