Intergenerational Education Mobility and the Level of Development: Evidence from Turkey

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This paper provides two contributions to the study of intergenerational mobility. First, we render a thorough characterization of education mobility in Turkey at the national level, including a three-generation mobility analysis. We find that the education mobility is significantly lower in Turkey compared to developed economies. Second, by exploiting large regional variation in the level of economic development across Turkey, we find that intergenerational education persistence is lower for females who grow up in more developed regions. The evidence is mixed for males. Interestingly, the development level of place of residence during earlier stages of childhood has much stronger association with education mobility compared to development level of place of residence during later stages.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 11164

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft
• Subject: intergenerational mobility ; education ; economic development ; three generations

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Aydemir, Abdurrahman ; Yazici, Hakki
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2017

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/174074
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET