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Multigenerational Persistence and The Great Gatsby Relation for India

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  • Chinmayi Srikanth

    (Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode)

  • Shubhasis Dey

    (Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode)

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: The purpose of this paper is to study aspects of identity that reinforce advantage and disadvantage in the educational sphere. Extant literature on multigenerational mobility in India establish the existence of a ‘grandfather effect’. By using distinct models to measure intergenerational and multigenerational educational persistence, this paper contends that this effect can be direct, indirect, or non-existent depending on the identity group - caste or religion - to which the family belongs. The paper also studies The Great Gatsby relation for zonal councils within India using caste and religionbased identifiers. This study finds that The Great Gatsby relation holds for religious groups but not for caste groups, regardless of the model specification used to measure persistence. The study further explores the mechanism through which advantages and disadvantages manifest for each identity group by linking their educational persistence with the average educational levels of each generation. Additionally, segregation in educational categories is studied using a relative entropy measure.

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  • Chinmayi Srikanth & Shubhasis Dey, 2022. "Multigenerational Persistence and The Great Gatsby Relation for India," Working papers 544, Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode.
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