witness any significant improvement in their performance, which questions the benefits of privatization in Egypt. …Even though it is well documented that privatization leads to an improvement in the performance of state … because it does not consider the performance of control firms of similar pre-privatization situations, i.e. the performance of …

We study lobbying in a setting in which decision-makers share resources in a network. Two opposing interest groups …-makers' ideologies as well as the network structure. We characterize the lobbying strategies in various network settings and show that a … findings are consistent with empirically established lobbying activities. …

High school students from non-elite backgrounds are less likely to have peers with elite educated parents than their … elite counterparts in Norway. We show this difference in social capital is a key driver of the high intergenerational … persistence in elite education. We identify a positive elite peer effect on enrolment in elite programmes and disentangle …

Intergenerational persistence in studying for elite education is high across the world. We study the role that exposure … to high school peers from elite educated families (‘elite peers’) plays in driving such a phenomenon in Norway. Using … causal impact of elite peers on the probability of enrolling in elite education for students from different socioeconomic …