We develop a model of intergenerational educational mobility incorporating gender bias against girls in the family … uneducated fathers face lower relative and absolute mobility (rural and urban). We find gender equality in absolute mobility for …

This paper incorporates gender bias against girls in the family, school and labor market in a model of … face lower mobility irrespective of location when born to fathers with low schooling, but the gender gap closes when the … leads to gender divergence in relative mobility for the children of highly educated fathers. In urban China, and urban and …

We incorporate gender bias against girls in the family, the school and the labor market in amodel of intergenerational … concave or convex, and gender biasaffects both relative and absolute mobility. We test these predictions in India and China … the gender gap closes when the fathers are collegeeducated. In China, the CEF is convex for sons in urban areas, but …