Loss aversion, education, and intergenerational mobility

Education Systems and Intergenerational Mobility

Intergenerational Education Mobility in India

Like Father, Like Son? Intergenerational Education Mobility in India An important constraint in studying intergenerational education mobility for India is the lack of data that contain information about parents’ education for the entire adult population. This paper employs a novel strategy to create a unique father-son matched data that is representative of the entire adult male population in I...

Essays on Intergenerational Income Mobility, Geographical Mobility, and Education

In Paper [I] we analyze the implications of social identity and self -categorization for optimal redistributive income taxation. A two-type model is supplemented by an assumption that individuals select themselves into social categories, in which norms are formed and education effort choices partly depend on these norms. The results show, among other things, that externality correction by a wel...

Differential fertility and intergenerational mobility under private versus public education

We study differential fertility and intergenerational mobility in an overlapping-generations framework with skilled and unskilled individuals. Assuming unskilled parents are less productive in educating children, we show that they choose higher fertility but less investment for child education than skilled parents. Public education reduces the fertility gap but may increase intergenerational mo...

Patterns of persistence: Intergenerational mobility and education in South Africa

How should the correlation between the earnings of parents and children in South Africa be calculated in the presence of high unemployment, and what is the role of education in determining this relationship? We use the first four waves of the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS) for 2008 to 2014/15, and the 1993 Project for Statistics on Living Standards and Development (PSLSD) to investigate ...