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Family background, education, and earnings: The limited value of "test-score transmission"

Friedman-Sokuler, Naomi; Justman, Moshe - 2024

Even the most egalitarian education systems employ high-stakes tests to regulate the transition from universal secondary education to selective academic programs that open doors to skilled, well-paid professions. This gives parents a strong incentive to invest substantial resources in improving...

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Gender Bias and Intergenerational Educational Mobility: Theory and Evidence from China and India

Emran, M. Shahe; Jiang, Hanchen; Shilpi, Forhad - 2020

We incorporate gender bias against girls in the family, the school and the labor market in a model of intergenerational … an irrelevance result: parental bias does not affect relative mobility. With diminishing returns and complementarity, the … CEF can be concave or convex, and parental bias affects both relative and absolute mobility. We test these predictions in …

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Pandemics and Intergenerational Mobility of Education: Evidence from the 2003 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) Epidemic in China

Liang, Wenquan; Xue, Sen - 2021

This paper examines the impact of the SARS epidemic in 2003 on intergenerational mobility in China. Using large cross-city variation in SARS cases, our triple difference-in-differences estimates suggest that the SARS epidemic significantly increases the intergenerational transmission of...

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Is Gender Destiny? Gender Bias and Intergenerational Educational Mobility in India

Emran, M. Shahe; Jiang, Hanchen; Shilpi, Forhad - 2021

We develop a model of intergenerational educational mobility incorporating gender bias against girls in the family …

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Sometimes you cannot make it on your own. How household background influences chances of success in Italy

Bonacini, Luca; Gallo, Giovanni; Scicchitano, Sergio - 2021

In this paper, we explore channels by which household background determines an individual's educational and social opportunities in Italy. Our analysis relies on a rich dataset that contains data both on individuals and their real parents, as well as information on individuals' non-cognitive...

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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...

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Ethnic differences in intergenerational housing mobility in England and Wales

Buscha, Franz; Gorman, Emma; Sturgis, Patrick; Zhang, Min - 2023

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...

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Excluded Generation: The Growing Challenges of Labor Market Insertion for Egyptian Youth

Assaad, Ragui; Krafft, Caroline - 2017

Youth in Egypt hold rising aspirations for their adult lives, yet face an increasingly uncertain and protracted transition from school to work and thus into adulthood. This paper investigates how labor market insertion has been evolving over time in Egypt and how the nature of youth transitions...

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What the Mean Measures of Mobility Miss: Learning About Intergenerational Mobility from Conditional Variance

Ahsan, Md. Nazmul; Emran, M. Shahe; Jiang, Hanchen; … - 2022

data free of coresidency bias, we provide evidence on three large developing countries (China, India, and Indonesia) that … false impression of high educational mobility. The downward bias is specially large for the children born into the most … disadvantaged households where fathers have no schooling, while the bias is negligible for the children of college educated fathers …

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Educational pathways and earnings trajectories of second-generation immigrants in Australia: New insights from linked census-administrative data

Zajac, Tomasz; Tomaszewski, Wojtek; Mitrou, Francis - 2025

This study employs 2011 Census data linked to population-based administrative datasets to explore disparities in educational attainment and earnings trajectories among Australian-born children of diverse parental migration backgrounds from mid-adolescence to early adulthood. Non-English Speaking...

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