Educational Inequality and Intergenerational Mobility in Latin America: A New Database

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Neidhöfer, Guido; Serrano, Joaquín Augusto; Gasparini, Leonardo Carlos
Año de publicación
2017
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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 by 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 is, on average, rising in Latin America. 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.
Fil: Neidhöfer, Guido. Freie Universität Berlin; Alemania
Fil: Serrano, Joaquín Augusto. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas. Departamento de Ciencias Económicas. Centro de Estudios Distributivos Laborales y Sociales; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
Fil: Gasparini, Leonardo Carlos. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas. Departamento de Ciencias Económicas. Centro de Estudios Distributivos Laborales y Sociales; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
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Inequality
Intergenerational Mobility
Education
Latin America
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Educational Inequality and Intergenerational Mobility in Latin America: A New Database
title Educational Inequality and Intergenerational Mobility in Latin America: A New Database
spellingShingle Educational Inequality and Intergenerational Mobility in Latin America: A New Database
Neidhöfer, Guido
Inequality
Intergenerational Mobility
Education
Latin America
title_short Educational Inequality and Intergenerational Mobility in Latin America: A New Database
title_full Educational Inequality and Intergenerational Mobility in Latin America: A New Database
title_fullStr Educational Inequality and Intergenerational Mobility in Latin America: A New Database
title_full_unstemmed Educational Inequality and Intergenerational Mobility in Latin America: A New Database
title_sort Educational Inequality and Intergenerational Mobility in Latin America: A New Database
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Neidhöfer, Guido
Serrano, Joaquín Augusto
Gasparini, Leonardo Carlos
author Neidhöfer, Guido
author_facet Neidhöfer, Guido
Serrano, Joaquín Augusto
Gasparini, Leonardo Carlos
author_role author
author2 Serrano, Joaquín Augusto
Gasparini, Leonardo Carlos
author2_role author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Inequality
Intergenerational Mobility
Education
Latin America
topic Inequality
Intergenerational Mobility
Education
Latin America
purl_subject.fl_str_mv https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5.2
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv 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 by 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 is, on average, rising in Latin America. 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.
Fil: Neidhöfer, Guido. Freie Universität Berlin; Alemania
Fil: Serrano, Joaquín Augusto. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas. Departamento de Ciencias Económicas. Centro de Estudios Distributivos Laborales y Sociales; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
Fil: Gasparini, Leonardo Carlos. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas. Departamento de Ciencias Económicas. Centro de Estudios Distributivos Laborales y Sociales; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
description 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 by 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 is, on average, rising in Latin America. 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.
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