In this paper we assess intergenerational mobility in terms of education and income rank in five Latin American … countries—Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, and Panama—by accounting for the education and occupation of both parents. Based on …% to 50%when besides of the education of parents we consider also their occupation. The increase is partic-ularly strong …

, on average. This pattern seems to be driven by the high upward mobility of children from low-educated families; at the … observed and are associated with income inequality, poverty, economic growth, public educational expenditures and assortative …

terms of both the assessment of the equity of the education expansion and its impact on the income distribution. In …

The ‘paradox of progress’ is an empirical regularity that associates more education with larger income inequality. Two …

Countries with high income inequality also show a strong association between parents' and children's economic well …

in mobility on economic indicators, such as income per capita, poverty, child mortality, and luminosity. Hereby, we …

. -- unconditional quantile regression ; income inequality ; education ; Argentina …

employment income of all primary school teachers in Argentina by 19 percent. We also find evidence of a decline in hourly wage … of the occupations into which students sort. Examining short- and long-run educational outcomes suggest that the labor … significant intergenerational treatment effects. Children of adults who were exposed to teacher strikes during primary school also …