The tracking of pupils by ability into elite and non-elite schools represents a controversial policy in many countries …. There is no consensus on how large the elite track should be and little agreement on the effects of any further increase in … its size. This paper presents a natural experiment where the increase in the size of the elite track was followed by a …

's political elite. We build a theoretical framework where factors of production owned by the political elites differ across …

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 …