individual has been a member of an elite team than when he has been a member of lower level teams. The conclusion is borne out by … who joined elite teams after an exogenous shift in the number of foreign players participating on top club teams …, performance of players on national teams in the year just before and the year just after they join an elite club team, and …

This paper begins the task of explaining why the American business elite has remained white, male and mostly native … that this demographic group makes the best business managers. I suggest that this in turn is not because they are …

This paper replicates a classic study of the American business elite. The older study done a half-century ago, reported … the composition of the" American business elite has changed. As in the earlier study, the business elite is compared to a …" sample of political leaders. I find that democratization of the business elite has progressed only" slightly in the past …

This paper investigates the impact of elite capture on the allocation of targeted government welfare programs in … Indonesia, using both a high-stakes field experiment that varied the extent of elite influence and non-experimental data on a … lists. However, while elite capture exists, the welfare losses it creates appear small: since formal elites and their …

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