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Colonial origin, ethnicity, and intergeneration mobility in Africa

Funjika, Patricia; Getachew, Yoseph Yilma - 2019

This paper estimates the relationship between differences in skills measured among within-country ethnic groups and individual human capital accumulation in eight African countries. Our results show that the skills of an individual in these countries depends more on the human capital levels of...

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China and the United States : different economic models but similarly low levels of socioeconomic mobility

Weide, Roy van der; Narayan, Ambar - 2019

The United States and China are the world's largest economies. Together they are responsible for about one-third of the world's economic output. This paper aims to examine whether the two economic giants are also lands of opportunity where resources are allocated in a way that minimizes...

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Gender bias in education during conflict : evidence from Assam

Roy, Sutanuka; Prakarsh Singh - 2016

Using a large-scale novel panel dataset (2005-14) on schools from the Indian state of Assam, we test for the impact of violent conflict on female students' enrollment rates. We find that a doubling of average killings in a district-year leads to a 13 per cent drop in girls' enrollment rate with...

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Can "good" social mobility news be "bad" and vice versa? : measurement (and downward mobility) pitfalls

Iversen, Vegard - 2020

Limited attention has been paid to how well social mobility measures debated and used to study industrial countries perform in analysis of low-income settings. Following brief, selective reviews of the axiomatic and econometric literatures, three mobility concepts illustrate how properties that...

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Whose intergenerational mobility? : a new set of estimates for Indonesia by gender, geography, and generation

Sakri, Diding; Sumner, Andrew; Yusuf, Arief Anshory - 2022

Various scholars have estimated levels of intergenerational mobility in OECD countries. Fewer estimates are available for developing countries, where mobility arguably matters more due to starker differences in living standards. This paper presents new estimates of mobility for a developing...

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Is there a gender bias in intergenerational mobility? : evidence from Cameroon

Fontep, Rose; Sen, Kunal - 2020

occupation and education for Cameroon. We find that both in occupation and education, intergenerational mobility is higher for …-paid occupations as compared with men. In the case of educational mobility, the effect of the mother's education on the daughter …'s education is strongest at the post-primary levels. Our results suggest that there is strong gender bias in intergenerational …

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Measuring social mobility rates in earlier and less-documented societies

Clark, Gregory - 2020

In societies where surnames are inherited from parents, we can use these names to estimate rates of intergenerational mobility. This paper explains how to make such estimates, and illustrates their use in pre-industrial England and modern Chile and India. These surname estimates have the...

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Economic approach to intergenerational mobility : measures, methods, and challenges in developing countries

Emran, M. Shahe; Shilpi, Forhad Jahan - 2019

This paper provides a critical survey and synthesis of the recent economic literature on intergenerational mobility in developing countries, with a focus on data and methodological challenges. The attenuation due to measurement error is compounded by sample truncation resulting from co-residency...

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Social mobility and inequality between groups

Funjika, Patricia; Gisselquist, Rachel M. - 2020

The relationship between social mobility and inequality is well studied in the literature, but far greater attention has been paid to 'vertical' than to 'horizontal' inequality. This paper focuses on mobility and horizontal inequality between ethnic, racial, and culturally-defined groups. Not...

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Intergenerational mobility of education in Vietnam : evidence from the Vietnam War

Khoa Vu; Lo Bue, Maria C. - 2019

Vietnam's education system has recently attracted international attention for exceptional learning outcomes and success … suggest that Vietnam’s recent success in education is not caused by the rise in the schooling of the parents of today …

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