Social mobility and economic development: evidence from a panel of Latin American regions

Autores
Neidhöfer, Guido; Ciaschi, Matías; Gasparini, Leonardo Carlos; Serrano, Joaquín
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2021
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We explore the role of social mobility as a driver of economic development by constructing a panel data set that includes measures of intergenerational mobility of education at the sub-national level in Latin America. First, we map the geography of educational mobility for 52 Latin American regions, as well as its evolution over time. Then, through a novel weighting procedure that considers the participation of cohorts to the economy in each year, we estimate the effect of changes in mobility on economic indicators, such as income per capita, poverty, child mortality, and luminosity. Hereby, we control for several covariates, including migration, educational expansions, initial conditions, and unobserved cross-regional heterogeneity. Our findings show that increasing social mobility had a significant and robust impact on the development of Latin American regions.
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Ciencias Económicas
Intergenerational mobility
Equality of opportunity
Development
Growth
Latin America
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Social mobility and economic development: evidence from a panel of Latin American regions
title Social mobility and economic development: evidence from a panel of Latin American regions
spellingShingle Social mobility and economic development: evidence from a panel of Latin American regions
Neidhöfer, Guido
Ciencias Económicas
Intergenerational mobility
Equality of opportunity
Development
Growth
Latin America
title_short Social mobility and economic development: evidence from a panel of Latin American regions
title_full Social mobility and economic development: evidence from a panel of Latin American regions
title_fullStr Social mobility and economic development: evidence from a panel of Latin American regions
title_full_unstemmed Social mobility and economic development: evidence from a panel of Latin American regions
title_sort Social mobility and economic development: evidence from a panel of Latin American regions
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Neidhöfer, Guido
Ciaschi, Matías
Gasparini, Leonardo Carlos
Serrano, Joaquín
author Neidhöfer, Guido
author_facet Neidhöfer, Guido
Ciaschi, Matías
Gasparini, Leonardo Carlos
Serrano, Joaquín
author_role author
author2 Ciaschi, Matías
Gasparini, Leonardo Carlos
Serrano, Joaquín
author2_role author
author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Ciencias Económicas
Intergenerational mobility
Equality of opportunity
Development
Growth
Latin America
topic Ciencias Económicas
Intergenerational mobility
Equality of opportunity
Development
Growth
Latin America
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv We explore the role of social mobility as a driver of economic development by constructing a panel data set that includes measures of intergenerational mobility of education at the sub-national level in Latin America. First, we map the geography of educational mobility for 52 Latin American regions, as well as its evolution over time. Then, through a novel weighting procedure that considers the participation of cohorts to the economy in each year, we estimate the effect of changes in mobility on economic indicators, such as income per capita, poverty, child mortality, and luminosity. Hereby, we control for several covariates, including migration, educational expansions, initial conditions, and unobserved cross-regional heterogeneity. Our findings show that increasing social mobility had a significant and robust impact on the development of Latin American regions.
Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales
description We explore the role of social mobility as a driver of economic development by constructing a panel data set that includes measures of intergenerational mobility of education at the sub-national level in Latin America. First, we map the geography of educational mobility for 52 Latin American regions, as well as its evolution over time. Then, through a novel weighting procedure that considers the participation of cohorts to the economy in each year, we estimate the effect of changes in mobility on economic indicators, such as income per capita, poverty, child mortality, and luminosity. Hereby, we control for several covariates, including migration, educational expansions, initial conditions, and unobserved cross-regional heterogeneity. Our findings show that increasing social mobility had a significant and robust impact on the development of Latin American regions.
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