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Intergenerational mobility through the lens of the elderly: New estimates from India and a comparison with existing measures

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  • Rajdeep Chaudhuri
  • Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay
  • Kunal Sen

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The literature on intergenerational mobility for many countries in the world focus on household surveys that capture the education of parents and their children. While they pay particular attention to issues regarding co-residency of fathers and son, they are somewhat weaker in information on women: daughters who live with their in-laws as well as resident women outside the reproductive age group (15-49), for whom information on parents is typically missing.

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  • Rajdeep Chaudhuri & Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay & Kunal Sen, 2026. "Intergenerational mobility through the lens of the elderly: New estimates from India and a comparison with existing measures," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2026-10, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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