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Social mobility in China, 1645–2012: A surname study
This paper estimates the rate of intergenerational social mobility of status in Late Imperial, Republican and Communist China by examining the changing social status of originally elite surnames over time.
Yu Hao
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The geography of intergenerational social mobility in Britain
Intergenerational preconditions and historical conferment of opportunity play a role in social mobility. This study considers the geography of relative deprivation to show how different family groups across Great Britain experience different ...
Paul A. Longley +2 more
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This paper focused on the intergenerational transmission of poverty in rural China by estimating the intergenerational transmission of earnings and stated its mechanism from the perspective of human capital investment before children participated in the ...
Yun-li BAI +3 more
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How does education affect knowledge and intergenerational social class mobility in China?
Education is an important tool used to equip knowledge and pursue self-improvement, which may affect intergenerational social class mobility through human capital accumulation.
Bingqiang Li +3 more
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The effect of cash transfer programs on educational mobility. [PDF]
In this paper I develop a model to reproduce the phenomenon of high intergenerational correlations in education observed in Latin American Countries. The model is based on empirical evidence and implemented through agent based modeling techniques.
Florian Chávez-Juárez
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Myth or Reality? Mobility Trends among Recent Graduates of Different Fields of Study
The paper focuses on the intergenerational mobility processes in Hungarian higher education over the past decade. Its purpose is to explore these processes and to analyse the differences between the fields of study.
Mihály Fónai, Viktória Lánczi
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We examine the themes of equal opportunity, intergenerational mobility, and inequality. We address the normative and definitional questions of selecting measures of mobility and summarize the current state of intergenerational mobility in the United ...
Isabel V. Sawhill, Richard V. Reeves
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The aim of this paper is to analyze the formative and evaluative activities involving statistical graphs in the new textbooks for Chilean rural multigrade education.
Matías Bustamante-Valdés +2 more
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The intergenerational transmission of education from parents to children is an important indicator of societal inclusiveness and educational inequality.
Sharron Xuanren Wang, Arthur Sakamoto
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Wealth and Economic Mobility [PDF]
Reviews studies of how wealth shapes intergenerational mobility through education, neighborhood choice, and occupational choice. Examines the roles of intergenerational assets transfers, credit constraints, and home ownership in children's ...
Nathan Grawe
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