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Intergenerational mobility in developed and developing countries
Neidhöfer, Guido - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012238294
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Growing up together: sibling correlation, parental influence, and intergenerational educational mobility in developing countries
Ahsan, Nazmul; Emran, M. Shahe; Jiang, Hanchen; Han, … - 2022 - This version: July 6, 2022, preliminary draft
We present credible and comparable evidence on intergenerational educational mobility in 53 developing countries using sibling correlation as a measure, and data from 230 waves of Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS). This is the first paper, to our knowledge, to provide estimates of sibling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013284061
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Beyond poverty escapes : social mobility in the Global South : a survey article
Iversen, Vegard; Krishna, Anirudh; Sen, Kunal - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012214646
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Beyond poverty escapes : social mobility in developing countries : a review article
Iversen, Vegard; Krishna, Anirudh; Sen, Kunal - In: The World Bank research observer : WBRO 34 (2019) 2, pp. 239-273
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012054843
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The inheritance of educational inequality among young people in developing countries
Pastore, Francesco; Roccisano, Federica - 2015
This letter provides new evidence on the extent of the inheritance of educational inequality in the eight developing … upgrade and the role of parents' in sons' and daughters' education. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528582
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012137964
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Great Gatsby and the Global South : intergenerational mobility, income inequality, and development
Sakri, Diding; Sumner, Andrew; Yusuf, Arief Anshory - 2023
In the Global South economic mobility across generations or intergenerational economic mobility is in and of itself an important topic for research with consequences for policy. This 'Element' surveys the area, conceptually and empirically.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014380182
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How to escape poverty through education? : intergenerational evidence in Spain
Duarte, Rosa; Ferrando-Latorre, Sandra; Molina, José … - In: Applied economics letters 25 (2018) 9, pp. 624-627
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty in Industrialized Countries
Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2011
This paper reviews research about the intergenerational transmission of poverty in industrialized countries. In order … to make our survey manageable, we restrict attention to studies that consider the relationship between parental poverty … background variables such as parental education. The general message is that growing up poor has a deleterious impact on later …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130685
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Distributional analysis of Ghana's tax system
Iddrisu, Abdul Malik; Phillips, David; Chackson, … - 2023
In recent years, policymakers across the globe have become increasingly interested in not only the revenue consequences of tax policies but also their distributional impacts: that is, their impacts on different segments of the population. Such evidence can promote a more equitable and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014450733