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Economic shocks, educational attainment, and intergenerational mobility: Evidence from Mozambique

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  • Giulia Barletta
  • Sam Jones

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Aggregate economic shocks can permanently alter children's educational trajectories, but it remains unclear whether they weaken intergenerational persistence or instead harden it. This paper studies the collapse of Mozambique's sugar estate sector as a severe economic shock that hit estate communities while children were growing up. We use the Vulnerable Lives Survey (VLS) 2024, the first retrospective intergenerational survey in Mozambique, and complement it with a cohabiting sample from the 1997 National Census.

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  • Giulia Barletta & Sam Jones, 2026. "Economic shocks, educational attainment, and intergenerational mobility: Evidence from Mozambique," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2026-114, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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    1. Ahsan, Md. Nazmul & Emran, M. Shahe & Jiang, Hanchen & Shilpi, Forhad, 2025. "Making the most of coresident data: Credible evidence on intergenerational mobility with sibling correlation," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 176(C).
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