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Social Mobility in Latin America: Links with Adolescent Schooling

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Lykke Andersen

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This paper proposes a new measure of social mobility. It is based on schooling gap regressions and uses the Fields decomposition to determine the importance of family background in explaining teenagers schooling gaps.

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Paper provided by Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department in its series RES Working Papers with number 3130.

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  1. Hassler, John & Rodríguez Mora, José Vicente, 1998. "IQ, Social Mobility and Growth," CEPR Discussion Papers 1827, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  2. Dollar, David & Fisman, Raymond & Gatti, Roberta, 2001. "Are women really the "fairer" sex? Corruption and women in government," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 46(4), pages 423-429, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  4. Alejandro Gaviria, 1998. "Intergenerational Mobility, Siblings' Inequality and Borrowing Constraints," University of California at San Diego, Economics Working Paper Series 1998-13, Department of Economics, UC San Diego. [Downloadable!]
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  5. Moulton, Brent R., 1986. "Random group effects and the precision of regression estimates," Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier, vol. 32(3), pages 385-397, August. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  6. Donald J. Robbins, 1999. "Gender, Human Capital and Growth: Evidence from Six Latin American Countries," OECD Development Centre Working Papers 151, OECD, Development Centre. [Downloadable!]
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  10. Alejandro Gaviria & Momi Dahan, 1999. "Sibling Correlations and Social Mobility in Latin America," RES Working Papers 4162, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department. [Downloadable!]
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  1. Leonardo Gasparini & Matías Horenstein & Sergio Olivieri, 2006. "Economic Polarisation in Latin America and the Caribbean: What do Household Surveys Tell Us?," Working Papers 0038, CEDLAS, Universidad Nacional de La Plata. [Downloadable!]
  2. Paula Giovagnoli & Georgina Pizzolitto & Julieta Trías, 2005. "Monitoring the Socio-Economic Conditions in Chile," Working Papers 0019, CEDLAS, Universidad Nacional de La Plata. [Downloadable!]
  3. Lopez , J. Humberto & Perry, Guillermo, 2008. "Inequality in Latin America : determinants and consequences," Policy Research Working Paper Series 4504, The World Bank. [Downloadable!]
  4. Lykke E. Andersen & Alice Brooks & Alejandro F. Mercado, 2004. "Macroeconomic Policies to Increase Social Mobility and Growth in Bolivia," Development Research Working Paper Series 02/2004, Institute for Advanced Development Studies. [Downloadable!]
  5. Maribel Jimenez & Monica Jimenez, 2009. "La Movilidad Intergeneracional del Ingreso: Evidencia para Argentina," Working Papers 0084, CEDLAS, Universidad Nacional de La Plata. [Downloadable!]
  6. Leonardo Gasparini, 2003. "Argentina´s Distributional Failure: The role of Integration and Public Policies," Working Papers 0001, CEDLAS, Universidad Nacional de La Plata. [Downloadable!]
  7. Hernán Winkler, 2005. "Monitoring the Socio-Economic Conditions in Uruguay," Working Papers 0026, CEDLAS, Universidad Nacional de La Plata. [Downloadable!]
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