resources by the landed elite to a democratic regime with universal suffrage--on the portfolio of public goods is heterogeneous …

How do elites mobilize commoners to participate in a war? How does war mobilization affect elite power after the war … and after the war. By examining how pre-war elite connections affected where soldiers who were killed came from, and …

While college enrollment has more-than doubled since 1970, elite colleges have barely increased supply, instead …, consistent with experience in elite [non-elite] colleges. A calibrated version of the model closely replicates the pattern in the … data of declining admit rates at elite colleges while counter-factual simulations without prestige fail. Prestige …

This paper estimates the return to an elite university education over a college graduate's career using the CHIP 2013 … data. We find a substantial premium for graduating from an elite Chinese university at job entry, but it declines quickly … developed regions, where individual skills are highly rewarded in the labor market. The initial elite premium and its subsequent …

The lawsuit Students For Fair Admissions v. Harvard University provided an unprecedented look at how an elite school …

revisits the question of how attending an elite college affects later-life outcomes. We expand the scope along two dimensions …