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When measure matters : coresidence bias and intergenerational mobility revisited

Muñoz S., Ercio; Siravegna, Mariel - 2023

We provide novel evidence of the impact of coresidence bias on a large set of indicators of intergenerational mobility … coefficient. Then, we expand our analysis to show that there are indicators with varying average levels of coresidence bias going … from less than 1% to more than 10%. However, some indicators with minimal bias produce high levels of re-ranking that make …

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Intergenerational educational mobility within Chile

Muñoz S., Ercio - 2025

I provide estimates of intergenerational mobility (IGM) in education at a disaggregated geographic level for Chile, a country with high school-level stratification by socioeconomic status and a decentralized administration of public schools. I document wide variation across communes. Relative...

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Intergenerational income mobility in England and the importance of education

Carneiro, Pedro; Cattan, Sarah; Dearden, Lorraine; … - 2022

We use newly linked UK administrative to estimate absolute income mobility for children born in England in the 1980s. We find huge differences across the country, with a strong North-South gradient. Children from low-income families who grew up in the lowest mobility areas - overwhelmingly in...

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Explaining intergenerational mobility : the role of fertility and family transfers

Daruich, Diego; Kozlowski, Julian - 2018

Poor families have more children and transfer less resources to them. This suggests that family decisions about fertility and transfers dampen intergenerational mobility. To evaluate the quantitative importance of this mechanism, we extend the standard heterogeneous agent life cycle model with...

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Intergenerational mobility in socio-emotional skills

Attanasio, Orazio P.; Paula, Áureo de; Toppeta, Alessandro - 2024

This paper investigates the intergenerational transmission of socio-emotional skills during childhood, using data from the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70) in the United Kingdom. This dataset enables us to measure two dimensions of socio-emotional development: internalising and externalising...

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The geography of intergenerational mobility in Latin America and the Caribbean

Muñoz S., Ercio - 2024

This paper estimates intergenerational mobility in education using data from 91 censuses in 24 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean spanning over half a century. It measures upward mobility as the likelihood that individuals will complete one educational stage more than their parents...

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Inequality of opportunity and intergenerational persistence in Latin America

Brunori, Paolo; Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Neidhöfer, Guido - 2023

How strong is the transmission of socio-economic status across generations in Latin America? To answer this question, we first review the empirical literature on intergenerational mobility and inequality of opportunity for the region, summarizing results for both income and educational outcomes....

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From the cradle to the grave : the effect of family background on the career path of Italian men

Raitano, Michele; Vona, Francesco - 2015

This paper investigates the influence of parental education on the returns to experience of Italian men using a new longitudinal dataset that contains detailed information on individual working histories. Our favourite panel estimates indicate that an additional year of parental education...

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Parents, patience, and persistence : a novel theory of intergenerational college attainment

Fuller, David L.; Vandenbroucke, Guillaume - 2025

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The anatomy of intergenerational income mobility in France and its spatial variations

Kenedi, Gustave; Sirugue, Louis - 2021 - This Version: November 2021

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