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

Autores
Neidhoefer, Guido; Serrano, Joaquín; Gasparini, Leonardo Carlos
Año de publicación
2017
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inglés
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Causes and consequences of the intergenerational persistence of inequality are a topic of great interest among different fields in economics. However, issues of data availability have restricted a broader and cross-national perspective on the topic so far. Based on rich sets of harmonized household survey data, we contribute to fill this gap providing time series for several indexes of relative and absolute intergenerational education mobility for 18 Latin American countries over 50 years. In this paper, we introduce this new database and describe the observed patterns. We find that on average intergenerational mobility has been rising in Latin America. This pattern seems to be driven by high upward mobility of children from low-educated families, while there is substantial immobility at the top of the distribution. Significant cross-country differences can be observed which are associated with the degree of income inequality, poverty, economic growth and public educational expenditures.
Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación
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Memoria académica
Materia
Ciencias Económicas
Sociología
Inequality
Intergenerational Mobilit
Equality of Opportunity
Transition Probabilities
Assortative Mating
Education
Human Capital
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
Neidhoefer, Guido
Ciencias Económicas
Sociología
Inequality
Intergenerational Mobilit
Equality of Opportunity
Transition Probabilities
Assortative Mating
Education
Human Capital
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 Neidhoefer, Guido
Serrano, Joaquín
Gasparini, Leonardo Carlos
author Neidhoefer, Guido
author_facet Neidhoefer, Guido
Serrano, Joaquín
Gasparini, Leonardo Carlos
author_role author
author2 Serrano, Joaquín
Gasparini, Leonardo Carlos
author2_role author
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Ciencias Económicas
Sociología
Inequality
Intergenerational Mobilit
Equality of Opportunity
Transition Probabilities
Assortative Mating
Education
Human Capital
Latin America
topic Ciencias Económicas
Sociología
Inequality
Intergenerational Mobilit
Equality of Opportunity
Transition Probabilities
Assortative Mating
Education
Human Capital
Latin America
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv Causes and consequences of the intergenerational persistence of inequality are a topic of great interest among different fields in economics. However, issues of data availability have restricted a broader and cross-national perspective on the topic so far. Based on rich sets of harmonized household survey data, we contribute to fill this gap providing time series for several indexes of relative and absolute intergenerational education mobility for 18 Latin American countries over 50 years. In this paper, we introduce this new database and describe the observed patterns. We find that on average intergenerational mobility has been rising in Latin America. This pattern seems to be driven by high upward mobility of children from low-educated families, while there is substantial immobility at the top of the distribution. Significant cross-country differences can be observed which are associated with the degree of income inequality, poverty, economic growth and public educational expenditures.
Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación
description Causes and consequences of the intergenerational persistence of inequality are a topic of great interest among different fields in economics. However, issues of data availability have restricted a broader and cross-national perspective on the topic so far. Based on rich sets of harmonized household survey data, we contribute to fill this gap providing time series for several indexes of relative and absolute intergenerational education mobility for 18 Latin American countries over 50 years. In this paper, we introduce this new database and describe the observed patterns. We find that on average intergenerational mobility has been rising in Latin America. This pattern seems to be driven by high upward mobility of children from low-educated families, while there is substantial immobility at the top of the distribution. Significant cross-country differences can be observed which are associated with the degree of income inequality, poverty, economic growth and public educational expenditures.
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