attainment than parental education. …

intergenerational mobility. Furthermore, holding parental education constant, Italian second generation immigrants show no less …

observed for their parents in terms of some economic statuses (wages, income, work hours, and education). Additionally, we …

relative importance of adolescent academic ability for children's educational attainment has increased in recent years, thereby …

underestimate a girl's ability, expect lowerreturns, and assign lower weights to their welfare ("pure son preference"). The model … rural India, the mechanisms are underestimation of ability of girlsand unfavorable school environment. There is some …

: What are Gatsby curves? When do they exist? We build a theoretical environment in which parental investment and education …

types of outcomes, such as (continuous) earnings or (discrete and ordinal) education levels, and captures dynastic … developing country. Results indicate that mobility in terms of education and potential earnings was markedly at the advantage of … women. The bulk of the population came out of illiteracy, possibly due to large-scale education reforms, but the relative …

In this paper we assess intergenerational mobility in terms of education and income rank in five Latin American … countries—Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, and Panama—by accounting for the education and occupation of both parents. Based on …% to 50%when besides of the education of parents we consider also their occupation. The increase is partic-ularly strong …