Arbeitspapier

Educational inequality and intergenerational mobility in Latin America: A new database

The causes and consequences of the intergenerational persistence of inequality are a topic of great interest among various fields in economics. However, until now, issues of data availability have restricted a broader and cross-national perspective on the topic. Based on rich sets of harmonized household survey data, we contribute to filling this gap computing time series for several indexes of relative and absolute intergenerational education mobility for 18 Latin American countries over 50 years, and making them publicly available. We find that intergenerational mobility has been rising in Latin America, on average. This pattern seems to be driven by the high upward mobility of children from low-educated families; at the same time, there is substantial immobility at the top of the distribution. Significant cross-country differences are observed and are associated with income inequality, poverty, economic growth, public educational expenditures and assortative mating.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Diskussionsbeiträge ; No. 2017/20

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
Education and Inequality
Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
Thema
inequality
intergenerational mobility
equality of opportunity
transition probabilities
assortative mating
education
human capital
Latin America

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Neidhöfer, Guido
Serrano, Joaquín
Gasparini, Leonardo
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Freie Universität Berlin, Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft
(wo)
Berlin
(wann)
2017

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Neidhöfer, Guido
  • Serrano, Joaquín
  • Gasparini, Leonardo
  • Freie Universität Berlin, Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft

Entstanden

  • 2017

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