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Don't Stop Believin’ – Heterogeneous Updating of Intergenerational Mobility Perceptions Across Income Groups

Schwarz, Anna; Warum, Philipp - 2023

This article presents a novel explanation why demand for redistribution on average does not respond to information on low intergenerational mobility. Building on insights from behavioral economics, we expect that incentives to update perceptions of intergenerational mobility change along the...

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Intergenerational mobility in Latin America : the multiple facets of social status and the role of mothers

Ciaschi, Matías; Marchionni, Mariana; Neidhöfer, Guido - 2023

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 the method proposed by Lubotsky and Wittenberg (2006),...

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Intergenerational mobility of education in Europe : geographical patterns, cohort-linked measures, and the innovation nexus

McNamara, Sarah; Neidhöfer, Guido; Lehnert, Patrick - 2024 - This version: January 16, 2024

We estimate intergenerational mobility of education for people born 1940-1999 at the subnational level for 40 European countries. The result is a panel of mobility indices for 105 mesoregions (NUTS1), and 215 microregions (NUTS2). We use these indices to make three contributions. First, we...

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When measure matters : coresidence bias and intergenerational mobility revisited

Muñoz S., Ercio; Siravegna, Mariel - 2023

We provide novel evidence of the impact of coresidence bias on a large set of indicators of intergenerational mobility in education. We begin re-examining a recent claim that the correlation coefficient is less biased than the regression coefficient. Then, we expand our analysis to show that...

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Career preferences and socio-economic background

Schüle, Paul - 2023

Career decisions, that is educational and occupational choice, are not only made by comparing expected incomes, but also by considering non-monetary rewards like social impact, chances of promotion, or the compatibility of work and family. In this paper, I use rich panel data from Germany to...

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Intergenerational Social Mobility in Africa Since 1920

Ouedraogo, Rasmane; Syrichas, Nicolas - 2022

The COVID-19 crisis has a severe impact on education and employment and exposed the many social inequities that make some populations more vulnerable to shocks. Despite a vast literature on social mobility in advanced economies, little is known about it in African countries, mainly due to data...

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Intergenerational mobility of economic well-being in Latin America

Neidhöfer, Guido; Ciaschi, Matías; Gasparini, Leonardo - 2022 - This version: 31 August 2022

We estimate, for the first time, long-run trends in intergenerational economic mobility for a multitude of countries in Latin America going beyond parent-child correlations in educational attainment. We use several indicators of well-being, such as the socio-economic situation of individuals,...

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Social mobility and economic development

Neidhöfer, Guido; Ciaschi, Matías; Gasparini, Leonardo; … - 2021

We explore the role of social mobility as a driver of economic development. First, we map the geography of intergenerational mobility of education for 52 Latin American regions, as well as its evolution over time. Then, through a new weighting procedure that considers the participation of...

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A distributional analysis of social group inequality in rural India

Azam, Mehtabul - 2009

This paper examines the differences in welfare, as measured by per capita expenditure (PCE), between social groups in rural India across the entire welfare distribution. The paper establishes that the disadvantage suffered by two historically disadvantaged groups - Scheduled Castes (SCs) and...

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Intergenerational wealth mobility in rural Bangladesh

Asadullah, M. Niaz - 2011

Unique residential history data with retrospective information on parental assets are used to study household wealth … mobility in 141 villages in rural Bangladesh. Regression estimates of father-son correlations and analyses of intergenerational … transition matrices show substantial persistence in wealth even when we correct for measurement errors in parental wealth. We do …

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