This paper estimates intergenerational mobility in education using data from 91 censuses in 24 countries in Latin … complete one educational stage more than their parents (primary education for those whose parents did not finish primary school …, or secondary education for those whose parents did not complete secondary school). It measures downward mobility as the …

country for men, and more than 45% of the variation for women. This indicates that education policy has an important role to …

productive abilities and education. Additionally, the system insures against 48% of lifetime earnings risk. Implementing a …

, education and the role of elites. Finally, we conduct a "replication" exercise with some seminal papers in the literature …

persistence in elite education. We identify a positive elite peer effect on enrolment in elite programmes and disentangle …

, consistent with the transition to employment elevating time pressure and stress. We find no effect on teenagers' education and …

Intergenerational persistence in studying for elite education is high across the world. We study the role that exposure … causal impact of elite peers on the probability of enrolling in elite education for students from different socioeconomic … intergenerational persistence at the top of the education and income distribution. …

fertility, family transfers, and education. The model, estimated to the US in the 2000s, implies that a counterfactual flat …

's education and income that are similar to the empirical evidence. A long-run large-scale program, however, yields twice as large …