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Educational mobility in developing countries

This paper reviews the small but growing literature on intergenerational educational mobility in the developing world. Education is a critical determinant of economic well-being, and it predicts a range of non-pecuniary outcomes such as marriage, fertility, health, crime, and political attitudes. We show that developing nations feature stronger intergenerational educational persistence than high-income countries, in spite of substantial educational expansion in the last decades. We consider variations in mobility across gender and region, and discuss the macro-level correlates of educational mobility in developing countries. The paper also discusses the literatures on (i) concepts and measures of educational mobility, (ii) theoretical perspectives to understand educational persistence across generations, (iii) the role that education plays in the economic mobility process, and (iv) differences in the type and quality of education as vehicles for intergenerational persistence, and it applies these literatures to understand educational mobility in the developing world.

ISBN
978-92-9256-724-8
Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: WIDER Working Paper ; No. 2019/88

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Thema
Educational mobility
developing countries
educational expansion
private schools
gender differences in education
equality of opportunity
economic development

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Torche, Florencia
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
(wo)
Helsinki
(wann)
2019

DOI
doi:10.35188/UNU-WIDER/2019/724-8
Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Torche, Florencia
  • The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)

Entstanden

  • 2019

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