A large literature on intergenerational mobility focuses on the conditional mean of children's economic outcomes to … relative and absolute mobility by accounting for an estimate of the risk premium for the conditional variance faced by a child …. The estimates of risk adjusted relative and absolute mobility for China, India and Indonesia suggest that the standard …

We present credible and comparable evidence on intergenerational educational mobility in 53 developing countries using … high quality standardized data. Sibling correlation is an omnibus measure of mobility as it captures observed and … evolution of sibling correlation suggests a variety of mobility experiences, with some regions registering a monotonically …

irrelevance theorem: parental bias does not affect relative mobility. Withdiminishing returns and complementarity, the CEF can be … concave or convex, and gender biasaffects both relative and absolute mobility. We test these predictions in India and China … concave relation. The girls face lower mobility irrespective of location in Indiawhen born to fathers with low schooling, but …