elitism that maximizes social mobility increases, while the welfare-maximizing degree of elitism decreases. The ranking … between the welfare- and mobility-maximizing degree of elitism may even be reversed. Utilitarian welfare is always higher when …

This paper shows that countries with high levels of "elitism" in higher-education are the countries displaying high … levels of inequality. In other words, a higher level of "elitism", i.e., large gap in quality of universities, and tight … higher Gini index. This paper shows that the Nordic countries display lower elitism in higher education as well as lower …