Hertz, Tom; Jayasundera, Tamara; Piraino, Patrizio; … - In: Advances in Economic Analysis & Policy 7 (2008) 2, pp. 1775-1775
This paper estimates 50-year trends in the intergenerational persistence of educational attainment for a sample of 42 nations around the globe. Large regional differences in educational persistence are documented, with Latin America displaying the highest intergenerational correlations, and the...