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Intergenerational Mobility in Africa. [PDF]

open access: yesEconometrica, 2021
We examine intergenerational mobility (IM) in educational attainment in Africa since independence using census data. First, we map IM across 27 countries and more than 2800 regions, documenting wide cross‐country and especially within‐country heterogeneity.
Alesina A   +3 more
europepmc   +6 more sources

Regional intergenerational mobility and corporate innovation: Evidence from China. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2023
By stimulating social vitality and improving innovation efficiency, intergenerational mobility plays an essential role in economic development. With the data from China Labor-force Dynamic Survey (CLDS) and A-share listed companies, this paper uses the ...
Changfu Luo, Lian Xie
doaj   +2 more sources

Multidimensional intergenerational mobility. [PDF]

open access: yesSoc Sci Med, 2023
In this paper, we present novel evidence of the extent to which intergenerational mobility is generalized or specific across domains of human and health capital. That is, do children who experience greater mobility in one domain (e.g., income) also experience mobility in other domains (education, health status, health behaviors, crime). Using rich data
Fletcher J, Jajtner KM.
europepmc   +3 more sources

What really matters for global intergenerational mobility? [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE
This study investigates the genuine impacts of education expansion, education inequality, and parental dependency on intergenerational mobility. It utilizes data from the Global Database on Intergenerational Mobility for 153 countries and cohorts born ...
Khanh Duong
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The Effects of the Great Depression on Children’s Intergenerational Mobility [PDF]

open access: yesRSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
This article examines the role of the Great Depression in shaping the intergenerational mobility of some of the most upwardly mobile cohorts of the twentieth century.
Martha J. Bailey   +3 more
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Intergenerational education mobility in India: nonlinearity and the Great Gatsby Curve [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Sociology
IntroductionIntergenerational education mobility, which reflects the degree to which an individual’s educational attainment is independent of their parents’ education, is essential for promoting equal opportunities in society.
P. K. V. Kishan, Abhinav Rajverma
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Educational policy and intergenerational mobility. [PDF]

open access: yesRev Econ Dyn, 2017
In the United States, there is considerable variation in intergenerational mobility across states. We argue that the distribution of public school spending across school districts under public school finance systems affects intergenerational mobility within the United States.
Kotera T, Seshadri A.
europepmc   +5 more sources

Heritability of education rises with intergenerational mobility. [PDF]

open access: yesProc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2019
As an indicator of educational opportunity, social scientists have studied intergenerational mobility—the degree to which children’s attainment depends on that of their parents—and how it varies across place or time. We combine this research with behavior genetics to show that societal variation in mobility is rooted in family advantages that siblings ...
Engzell P, Tropf FC.
europepmc   +9 more sources

Is intergenerational elasticity (IGE) a misleading measure of wealth mobility? [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE
Intergenerational elasticity (IGE) is a widely used measure of wealth mobility, represented as the slope in an AR(1) model. While intended to capture the extent of wealth mobility between generations, this paper identifies two key issues with its use ...
Seorin Kim   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Modelling Drivers Affecting Intergenerational Social Mobility of Women in Dehloran City [PDF]

open access: yesمطالعات اجتماعی روان‌شناختی زنان, 2022
This article aims to investigate the predictors affecting intergenerational social mobility among women in Dehloran city. The method of this research is a survey and the data collection tool is a questionnaire.
Masomeh Bagheri   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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