This study investigates intergenerational educational immobility and its transmission channels in four developing countries: Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam. From data elicited throughout children's childhood, we extract latent factors of children's attributes and their environments. We...

This study investigates intergenerational educational immobility and its transmission channels in four developing countries: Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam. From data elicited throughout children's childhood, we extract latent factors of children's attributes and their environments. We...

I analyze the expansion of higher education and its contribution to social mobility by linking information from 2016 Mexican Social Mobility Survey and the National Educational Information System. The empirical strategy follows a difference-in-differences approach that exploits variation in...

This study investigates the transmission channels of intergenerational social immobility in low- and middle-income countries. Using a rich longitudinal survey dataset on Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam, we analyze through which factors socioeconomic status is passed on between generations. We...