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Occupational dualism and intergenerational educational mobility in the rural economy: evidence from China and India

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  • Shahe Emran, M.
  • Ferreira, Francisco H. G.
  • Jiang, Yajing
  • Sun, Yan

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We extend the Becker-Tomes model to a rural economy with farm-nonfarm occupational dualism to study intergenerational educational mobility in rural China and India. Using data free of coresidency bias, we find that fathers’ nonfarm occupation and education were complementary in determining sons schooling in India, but separable in China. Sons faced lower mobility in India irrespective of fathers’ occupation. Sensitivity analysis using the Altonji et al. (J. Polit. Econ. 113(1), 151–84, 2005) approach suggests that genetic correlations alone could explain the intergenerational persistence in China, but not in India. Farm-nonfarm differences in returns to education, and geographic mobility are plausible mechanisms behind the contrasting cross-country evidence.

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  • Shahe Emran, M. & Ferreira, Francisco H. G. & Jiang, Yajing & Sun, Yan, 2023. "Occupational dualism and intergenerational educational mobility in the rural economy: evidence from China and India," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 120490, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
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    • O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
    • J62 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Job, Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion

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