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...

Over the past decade, there have been a growing number of studies that examined the association between social mobility and health, paying more attention to variations in social position over the life course. However, few studies investigated the extent of social mobility and its association...