parents invest in early and college education of their children subject to borrowing constraints. Children differ exogenously … in innate abilities, which can be correlated with their parent's innate ability. An important feature of the environment … is that the quality of early education determines the probability of college completion. We calibrate a stationary …

parents invest in early and college education of their children subject to borrowing constraints. Children differ exogenously … in innate abilities, which can be correlated with their parent's innate ability. An important feature of the environment … is that the quality of early education determines the probability of college completion. We calibrate a stationary …

Using data from the 1979 and 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we investigate the changing roles of ability … and education in the transmission of economic status across generations. Potential changes are identified using a … decomposition method based on the OLS omitted variable bias formula. We find that ability plays a substantially diminished role for …

rates, intergenerational mobility of education, and long-run earnings inequality in eight countries Sub-Saharan Africa. On … completion is higher. However, a small additional impact on girls’ education due to the Covid-19 induced rise in teenage … pregnancy is observed in some countries. Intergenerational mobility of education decreases from 1 to close to 50 percent …

series for several indexes of relative and absolute intergenerational education mobility for 18 Latin American countries over …

series for several indexes of relative and absolute intergenerational education mobility for 18 Latin American countries over …

education sector lead to a negative correlation. A better understanding of the causes for changes in inequality over time or … shows that skilled parents might prefer more public education than unskilled parents, if the educational barriers for …