This work deals with the interplay of skilled worker emigration and school participation in small developing economies. We develop an Overlapping generations framework with talent heterogeneity, where agents make intertemporal decisions on schooling and emigration. The main innovation compared...

We explore the role of social mobility as a driver of economic development. First, we map the geography of intergenerational mobility of education for 52 Latin American regions, as well as its evolution over time. Then, through a new weighting procedure that considers the participation of...