| By: |
Neidhöfer, Guido;
Serrano, Joaquín;
Gasparini, Leonardo |
| Abstract: |
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. |
| Keywords: |
inequality,intergenerational mobility,equality of opportunity,transition probabilities,assortative mating,education,human capital,Latin America |
| JEL: |
D63 I24 J62 O15 |
| Date: |
2017 |
| URL: |
http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:zbw:fubsbe:201720&r=lam |