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I provide estimates of intergenerational mobility (IGM) in education at a disaggregated geographic level for Chile, a country with high school-level stratification by socioeconomic status and a decentralized administration of public schools. I document wide variation across communes. Relative...
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I estimate intergenerational mobility (IGM) in education at a disaggregated geographic level in Chile. I document wide variation across more than three hundred communes in eight measures of IGM. Relative mobility is correlated to the number of doctors, the ratio of students per teacher, and to...
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Among economists, empirical analysis of social mobility and the role of parental background is largely carried out in two separate strands of research. The intergenerational mobility literature estimates parent-child persistence in a certain outcome of interest, such as income. In contrast, the...
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and find that the remaining bias is substantial (20% of the true elasticity from left-side measurement error at the most …-cycle bias if the snapshots cannot mimic lifetime outcomes. Using uniquely long series of Swedish income data, we show that … current empirical strategies do not eliminate such bias. We focus on the widely adopted generalized errors-in-variables model …
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Productivity and socio-economic progress are inter-connected. Economic growth funds policies that promote socio-economic progress, while the latter serves as a growth engine. A society with high mobility is one where individual achievements are influenced less by the individual’s parents and...
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By comparing the impact of two different expansionary education policies in China, namely compulsory education popularization and college enrollment expansion, we test their effects on China’s intergenerational income mobility and find that the impacts of the two policies on intergenerational...
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This study explores relationships between parental resource trajectories and child development, and their implications for intergenerational mobility. By modifying the child skill formation technology to incorporate new skills during adolescence, we analyze the importance of the timing of family...
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Education is an important tool used to equip knowledge and pursue self-improvement, which may affect intergenerational social class mobility through human capital accumulation. Using 8014 mixed cross-section samples from the 2017, 2018 and 2021 China General Social Survey (CGSS), an...
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We use a representative panel dataset to estimate the upward mobility of education in South Korea. Generally, over 57.2% of individuals attain education level greater than or equivalent to their parents regarding their relative ranks. We also compare the upward mobility between senior and young...
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empirical literature on this topic, we also give a brief discussion of some of the relevant theory. We consider three strands of …-economic outcomes. We discuss both measurement challenges and some notable findings. We then turn to quantifying the importance of …
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