entrepreneurial elite, resulting in economic policy and institutions which are more conducive to entrepreneurship and productivity …

and how far the interests of the marginalized poor are undermined by the dominant elite consisting mainly of the landed … and the capitalists. We distinguish the dominant elite from the minority elite (i.e., elected women and low caste … education while presence of capitalist elite, as reflected in greater degree of industrialisation enhances it, even in poorer …

elite dominance that discriminates against the minority groups of people and systematically under-invests in mass education …. We experiment with various indirect economic and political measures of elite dominance. Results based on the Indian state …

. Existing observational studies fail to isolate the effect of economic conditions and the effect of elite framing of these … conditions. We therefore designed a survey experiment to evaluate how economic change in conjunction with different elite frames …

I take advantage of a sharp discontinuity in the probability of admission to an elite university at the admission score …. Cumulated over fifteen years, the time span of income data for my sample, the net premium of attending the elite university …

an elite Brazilian university that adopted race- and income-based affirmative action at a large scale. Using employer …