intergenerational persistence in schooling where parents self-finance children's education because of credit market imperfections … mobility. This paper tests these predictions in India and China using data not subject to coresidency bias. The evidence … rejects the linear conditional expectation function in rural and urban India in favor of a concave relation. Girls in India …

of financial investment in children's education determine relative mobility, as measured by the slope, while the … genetic correlations in China, but not in India. Fathers' nonfarm occupation and education were complementary in determining a … farm-nonfarm occupational dualism and provides a comparative analysis of rural China and rural India. The model builds a …

persistence, using two exceptional surveys from India and Bangladesh that include all children irrespective of residency status …