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dc.titleThe Geography of Intergenerational Mobility in Latin America and the Caribbean
dc.contributor.authorMuñoz, Ercio
dc.contributor.orgunitGender and Diversity Division
dc.coverageArgentina
dc.coverageBolivia
dc.coverageBrazil
dc.coverageChile
dc.coverageColombia
dc.coverageCosta Rica
dc.coverageCuba
dc.coverageDominican Republic
dc.coverageEcuador
dc.coverageEl Salvador
dc.coverageGuatemala
dc.coverageHaiti
dc.coverageHonduras
dc.coverageJamaica
dc.coverageTrinidad and Tobago
dc.coverageMexico
dc.coverageNicaragua
dc.coveragePanama
dc.coverageParaguay
dc.coveragePeru
dc.coverageUruguay
dc.coverageSuriname
dc.coverageVenezuela
dc.coverageLatin America and the Caribbean
dc.date.available2024-07-09T00:07:00
dc.date.issue2024-07-09T00:07:00
dc.description.abstractThis paper estimates intergenerational mobility in education using data from 91 censuses in 24 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean spanning over half a century. It measures upward mobility as the likelihood that individuals will complete one educational stage more than their parents (primary education for those whose parents did not finish primary school, or secondary education for those whose parents did not complete secondary school). It measures downward mobility as the likelihood that an individual will fail to complete a level of education (primary or secondary) that their parents did attain. In addition, the paper explores the geography of educational intergenerational mobility using nearly 400 “provinces” and more than 6,000 “districts,” finding substantial cross-country and within-country heterogeneity. It documents a decline in the mobility gap between urban and rural populations and small differences by gender. It also finds that upward mobility is increasing and downward mobility is decreasing over time. Within countries, the level of mobility correlates closely to the share of the preceding generation that completed primary school. In addition, upward mobility is negatively correlated with distance to the capital and the share of the workforce employed in agriculture, but is positively correlated with the share of the workforce employed in industry. The opposite is true of downward mobility.
dc.format.extent74
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0013050
dc.identifier.urlhttps://publications.iadb.org/publications/english/document/The-Geography-of-Intergenerational-Mobility-in-Latin-America-and-the-Caribbean.pdf
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherInter-American Development Bank
dc.subjectIntergenerational Mobility
dc.subject.jelcodeD63 - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
dc.subject.jelcodeI24 - Education and Inequality
dc.subject.jelcodeJ62 - Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility
dc.subject.keywordsSocioeconomic mobility;Education;Latin America and the Caribbean
idb.identifier.pubnumberIDB-WP-01620
idb.operationRG-T4137
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