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Intergenerational Occupational Mobility in a Rural Economy
Emran, M. Shahe; Shilpi, Forhad - 2007
This paper presents evidence on intergenerational occupational mobility from agriculture to the nonfarm sector using survey data from Nepal. In the absence of credible instruments, the degree of selection on observables is used as a guide to the degree of selection on unobservables á la Altonji...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014225472
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Occupational dualism and intergenerational educational mobility in the rural economy: evidence from China and India
Emran, M. Shahe; Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Jiang, Yajing; … - 2020
farm-nonfarm occupational dualism and provides a comparative analysis of rural China and rural India. The model builds a … India faced lower educational mobility compared with the sons in rural China in the 1970s to 1990s. To understand the role … solely to genetic correlations in China, but not in India. Father's nonfarm occupation was complementary to his education in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012257812
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Is there a gender bias in intergenerational mobility? : evidence from Cameroon
Fontep, Rose; Sen, Kunal - 2020
We examine the intergenerational mobility of women relative to men, using paired mother-daughter and father-son data on occupation and education for Cameroon. We find that both in occupation and education, intergenerational mobility is higher for sons than for daughters. The intergenerational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012268204
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Intergenerational Occupational Mobility in Rural Economy : Evidence from Nepal and Vietnam
Shilpi, Forhad; Emran, M. Shahe - 2010
This paper presents evidence on intergenerational occupational mobility from agriculture to nonfarm sector using survey data from Nepal and Vietnam. In the absence of credible instruments, the degree of selection on observables is used as a guide to the degree of selection on unobservables a la...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014191584
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Barriers or catalysts? : traditional institutions and social mobility in rural India
Iversen, Vegard; Kundu, Anustup; Lahoti, Rahul; Sen, Kunal - 2023
We examine how village-level social group dominance affects the educational and occupational mobility of minority and other social groups in rural India across multiple generations. We distinguish between upper caste and own-group dominance and examine the mechanisms underpinning inequality in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014390647
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Barriers or catalysts? : traditional institutions and social mobility in rural India
Iversen, Vegard; Kundu, Anustup; Lahoti, Rahul; Sen, Kunal - 2023
We examine how village level social group dominance affects the educational and occupational mobility of minority and other social groups in rural India across multiple generations. Theoretically, we distinguish between upper caste and own group dominance and examine the mechanisms underpinning...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014428456
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Intergenerational Educational Mobility in Rural Economy : Evidence from China and India
Emran, M. Shahe - 2019
occupational dualism (farm vs. nonfarm) and provide a comparative analysis of rural India and rural China. Using two exceptional … truncation bias due to coresidency. The sons in rural India faced lower educational mobility compared to the sons in rural China … in India, but separable in China. However, the separability observed for the older cohorts in rural China broke down for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012869718
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Intragenerational and intergenerational mobility in Viet Nam
Nguyen Tran Lam; Cuong Viet Nguyen - 2017
This study examines intragenerational and intergenerational mobility of employment and income in Viet Nam during 2004-2008 and 2010-2014. It finds rather high mobility across income quintiles. There was high mobility of individuals by occupational skills but less mobility by employment status...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011637616
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What the mean measures of mobility miss : learning about intergenerational mobility from conditional variance
Ahsan, Nazmul; Emran, M. Shahe; Jiang, Hanchen; Shilpi, … - 2022 - This version: February 17, 2022
data free of coresidency bias, we provide evidence on three large developing countries (China, India, and Indonesia) that …. The estimates of risk adjusted relative and absolute mobility for China, India and Indonesia suggest that the standard …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013254235
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Are the Children of Uneducated Farmers Doubly Doomed? Farm, Nonfarm and Intergenerational Educational Mobility in Rural China
Emran, M. Shahe - 2014
data from rural China that cover three generations and are not subject to coresidency bias. The evidence from recently …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013045810