The aim of this paper is to examine the evolution of recruitment of elites and to investigate the nature of the links … between recruitment of elites and economic growth. The main change that occurred in the way the Western world trained its … elites is that meritocracy became the basis for their recruitment. Although meritocratic selection should result in the best …

strategies to higher education. The starting hypothesis of this study is that students consider the expected utility of their …-priced education. The results of this paper confirm that both expected wages and admission probabilities determine students …This paper analyses the effects of labour market expectations and admission probabilities on students' application …

investment in education because discrimination spurred exit facilitated by human capital. Theory moreover suggests that if exit …

The US experienced two dramatic changes in the structure of education in a fifty year period. The first was a large … students. We study the impact of these two trends on the composition of school groups by observed ability and the importance of …

that small increases in shared computer access, one more computer per 40 students, can produce large increases in digital …

that small increases in shared computer access, one more computer per 40 students, can produce large increases in digital …