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 …

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 …