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Growing up together: sibling correlation, parental influence, and intergenerational educational mobility in developing countries
Ahsan, Nazmul; Emran, M. Shahe; Jiang, Hanchen; Han, … - 2022 - This version: July 6, 2022, preliminary draft
-Saharan Africa). This suggests a dominant role for the parents in determining educational opportunities of children. Evidence on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013284061
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Is gender destiny? : gender bias and intergenerational educational mobility in India
Emran, M. Shahe; Jiang, Hanchen; Shilpi, Forhad Jahan - 2021 - This version: March 22, 2021
children of urban college educated fathers, but not in rural areas. Theoretical insights help understand the mechanisms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012496682
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Gender bias and intergenerational educational mobility : theory and evidence from China and India
Emran, M. Shahe; Jiang, Hanchen; Shilpi, Forhad Jahan - 2020 - This Version: March 15, 2020
persistence in schooling where parents self-finance children's educationbecause of credit market imperfections. Parents may … leads to gender divergence in relative mobility for the children of highly educated fathers. Inurban China, and urban and … evidence of pure son preference in rural India.The girls in rural China do not face bias in financial investment by parents …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012177399
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What the mean measures of mobility miss : learning about intergenerational mobility from conditional variance
Ahsan, Nazmul; Emran, M. Shahe; Jiang, Hanchen; Shilpi, … - 2022 - This version: February 17, 2022
A large literature on intergenerational mobility focuses on the conditional mean of children's economic outcomes to … suggests a strong influence of father's education on conditional variance of children's schooling. We find substantial … measures substantially underestimate the effects of family background on children's educational opportunities, and may give a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013254235
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Ethnic differences in intergenerational housing mobility in England and Wales
Buscha, Franz; Gorman, Emma; Sturgis, Patrick; Zhang, Min - 2023
In this paper we use linked Census data to document rates of intergenerational housing mobility across ethnic groups in England and Wales. While home ownership has declined across all ethnic groups, we find substantial differences between them, with Black, Pakistani and Bangladeshi households...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013479679
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Ethnic differences in intergenerational housing mobility in England and Wales
Buscha, Franz; Gorman, Emma; Sturgis, Patrick; Zhang, Min - 2023 - [rev.]
Home ownership is the largest component of wealth for most households and its intergenerational transmission underpins the production and reproduction of economic inequalities across generations. Yet, little is currently known about ethnic differences in the intergenerational transmission of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014318690