We develop a model of intergenerational educational mobility incorporating gender bias against girls in the family … uneducated fathers face lower relative and absolute mobility (rural and urban). We find gender equality in absolute mobility for …

We incorporate gender bias against girls in the family, the school and the labor market in amodel of intergenerational … concave or convex, and gender biasaffects both relative and absolute mobility. We test these predictions in India and China … the gender gap closes when the fathers are collegeeducated. In China, the CEF is convex for sons in urban areas, but …

suggests a strong influence of father's education on conditional variance of children's schooling. We find substantial … heterogeneity across countries, gender, and geography (rural/ urban). Cohort based estimates suggest that the effects of father …'s education on the conditional variance has changed qualitatively, in some cases a positive effect in the 1950s cohort turning …