This paper formulates a simple skill and education model to explain how better access to higher education leads to …

turn observed in the persistence mechanism. The study finds that for India, persistence mechanisms for education are indeed … account for endogeneity in the father's education. …

This paper formulates a simple skill and education model to illustrate how better access to higher education can lead …

several years after the shock, children of more exposed fathers have lower education and earnings, lower chances of formal …

shock, children of more exposed fathers have lower education and earnings, lower chances of formal jobs, and are more likely …

among levels of education. However, the distribution of education levels varies over time. Therefore we use a novel … the distribution, not among different levels of education. Our measures of educational mobility are comparable over the … women's education was a major force behind the rise in intergenerational educational mobility in the first decades of the …

We review the economic literature on the impacts of the several dimensions of education upon intergenerational … inequality persistency. It is firstly outlined that the critical increase in the population education level in all countries has … not come with lower inequality. The basic tools of education and intergenerational mobility modelling are subsequently …

and education in the transmission of economic status across generations. Potential changes are identified using a … the most recent cohort while education plays a substantially larger role. The first finding results from a smaller effect … finding results mainly from increased returns to higher education. …

intergenerational mobility. Furthermore, holding parental education constant, Italian second generation immigrants show no less …