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 …

means to protect the economic interests of the once ruling elite. Under quot;democratic federalismquot; the constitution … creates an annual policy game where the new majority and the elite each control one policy instrument of importance to the … other. The game has a stable, stationary equilibrium that the elite may prefer to autocratic rule. We apply our analysis to …

This paper estimates the return to an elite university education over a college graduate's career in contemporary China …. We find a substantial premium for graduating from an elite Chinese university at the job entry that declines quickly in … economically more developed regions, where individual skills are highly rewarded in the labor market. Both male and female elite …

This paper asks whether elite colleges help students outside of historically advantaged groups reach top positions in … discontinuity design based on admissions rules at elite business-focused degree programs in Chile. The 1.8% of college students …