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

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  • Guido Neidhöfer

    (Freie Universität Berlin)

  • Joaquín Serrano

    (CEDLAS-FCE-UNLP & CONICET)

  • Leonardo Gasparini

    (CEDLAS-FCE-UNLP & CONICET)

Abstract

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 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 has been rising in Latin America, on average. 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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  • Guido Neidhöfer & Joaquín Serrano & Leonardo Gasparini, 2017. "Educational Inequality and Intergenerational Mobility in Latin America: A New Database," CEDLAS, Working Papers 0215, CEDLAS, Universidad Nacional de La Plata.
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    1. Neri, Marcelo Côrtes & Bonomo, Tiago, 2017. "Returns and intergenerational mobility of education during period of falling earnings inequality in Brazil," FGV/EPGE Economics Working Papers (Ensaios Economicos da EPGE) 793, FGV/EPGE - Escola Brasileira de Economia e Finanças, Getulio Vargas Foundation (Brazil).

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    JEL classification:

    • D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
    • I24 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Inequality
    • J62 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Job, Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
    • O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration

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