mobility. This paper explains how to make such estimates, and illustrates their use in pre-industrial England and modern Chile …-child estimates. They are also more robust to errors in status data. Thus, they can be used to estimate social mobility rates in early … societies such as England 1300-1800, or in less-developed societies now. Surnames measure a different aspect of social mobility …

achievements among internal migrants. We test empirically whether young migrants's schooling decisions are affected by the presence … of Thailand. Different modelling approaches are used to account for the self-selection of young migrants, for potential … found to negatively affect the propensity of young migrants to pursue schooling while in the city. This finding suggests …

This paper investigates how beliefs of the destination country’s population in social mobility may influence the … location choice of high-skilled migrants. We pool macro data from the IAB brain drain dataset with population survey data from … the ISSP for the period 1987-2010 to identify the effect of public beliefs in social mobility on the share of high …