中文摘要
鉴于地位代际继承的历史障碍（如有限的私有产权和频繁的经济与政治危机），非洲的精英持续性是否比世界其他地区更弱？在缺乏代际关联数据的情况下，我们使用姓名分析来探讨这一问题。利用与两个塞拉利昂精英群体（定居者的克里奥后裔和酋长世系成员）相关的姓氏，我们衡量了自1960年以来在政治、教育和商业领域的精英持续性。这两个群体在独立时的精英职位中高度超比例代表，且至今依然超比例代表。将我们的结果与其他国家进行基准比较表明，塞拉利昂的教育精英持续性与其他地区一样强，但政治领域中的精英持续性低于英国（我们的主要比较对象）。我们还表明了显著的路径依赖：酋长后裔在政治和采矿业的超比例代表程度依然更高，而克里奥人在教育和专业领域的超比例代表程度极高。
Abstract
Is elite persistence weaker in Africa than in other parts of the world, given historical barriers to intergenerational inheritance of status, such as limited private property rights and frequent economic and political crises? In the absence of linked intergenerational data, we use name analysis to address this question. Using surnames associated with two Sierra Leonean elites, Krio descendants of settlers and members of chiefly lineages, we measure elite persistence in politics, education and business since 1960. Both groups were highly overrepresented in elite positions at independence, and remain overrepresented today. Benchmarking our results against other countries shows that Sierra Leone's educational elites are as persistent as elsewhere, but elite persistence in the political sphere is lower than in the United Kingdom, our main comparator. We also show marked path dependence: chiefly descendants remain more overrepresented in politics and mining, while the Krio are highly over-represented in education and the professions.