Education and Elitism discusses polemical debates around privilege, private schools, elitist
universities, equal access to education and underlying notions of fairness. The overarching …

This paper relates social mobility and social stratification to the structure of higher education.
We develop an intergenerational model which shows that a two-tier higher education …

Countries in which there are two channels of education may have a separating equilibrium
in which individuals with high abilities learn in elite universities and individuals with low …

This paper proposes an explanation for the decrease in social mobility that has occurred in
the last two decades in a number of advanced economies, as well as for the divergence in …

We show that the system of 'Grandes écoles'(GEs) is a key determinant of social
stratification, low intergenerational mobility at the top and low educational efficiency in …

This paper relates social mobility and social stratification to the structure of higher education.
We develop an intergenerational model which shows that a two-tier higher education …

This paper relates social mobility and social stratification to higher education policy. We
show that higher-education policy which leads to differences in quality and per-student …