Schooling, the underclass and intergenerational mobility: a dual education system dilemma

Intergenerational Schooling Mobility and Macro Conditions and Schooling Policies.PDF

The effects of market and policy reforms on poverty and inequality in Latin America have been of considerable concern. The region continues to have relatively great income inequalities. But income inequality measurements based on cross-sectional annual data are Asnapshots.@ Two different societies with the same Asnapshots@ of income distribution may have different levels of social welfare becau...

Education Systems and Intergenerational Mobility

Estimating Intergenerational Schooling Mobility on Censored Samples: Consequences and Remedies

In this paper we estimate the impact of parental schooling on child schooling, focus on the problem that children who are still in school constitute censored observations, and evaluate three solutions to it: replacement of observed with expected years of schooling, maximum likelihood approach, and elimination of all school-aged children. Using intergenerational data from the Wisconsin Longitudi...

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...

Intergenerational Schooling Mobility and Macro Conditions and Schooling Policies in Latin America

The effects of market and policy reforms on poverty and inequality in Latin America have been of considerable concern. The region continues to have relatively great income inequalities. But income inequality measurements based on cross-sectional annual data are Asnapshots.@ Two different societies with the same Asnapshots@ of income distribution may have different levels of social welfare becau...