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Is there a gender bias in intergenerational mobility?: Evidence from CameroonWe examine the intergenerational mobility of women relative to men, using paired mother-daughter and father-son data on occupation and education for Cameroon...
Occupational mobility Educational mobility Intergenerational MobilityWorking Paper
Measuring social mobility rates in earlier and less-documented societiesIn societies where surnames are inherited from parents, we can use these names to estimate rates of intergenerational mobility...
surnames Intergenerational Mobility long-run mobilityWorking Paper
Can ‘good’ social mobility news be ‘bad’ and vice versa?: Measurement (and downward mobility) pitfallsLimited attention has been paid to how well social mobility measures debated and used to study industrial countries perform in analysis of low-income settings...
Intergenerational Mobility Measurement Developing countriesWorking Paper
Social mobility and inequality between groupsThe relationship between social mobility and inequality is well studied in the literature, but far greater attention has been paid to ‘vertical’ than to ‘horizontal’ inequality...
Social mobility Horizontal inequality Ethnic inequalityWorking Paper
Income mobility in the developing world: Recent approaches and evidenceThis paper examines income mobility in developing countries. We start by synthesizing findings from the available evidence on relative mobility and poverty dynamics...
Intragenerational mobility Intergenerational Mobility Welfare dynamicsWorking Paper
Drivers of mobilityEmpirical studies in developing countries tend to find higher levels of socioeconomic persistence across generations compared with those of high-income economies...
Intergenerational Mobility global south market exclusionJournal Article
The Intergenerational Impact of China's New Rural Pension SchemePart of Journal Special Issue Welfare and distributive effects of social assistance in the Global South
China Intergenerational Mobility PensionWorking Paper
China and the United States: Different economic models but similarly low levels of socioeconomic mobilityThe United States and China are the world’s largest economies. Together they are responsible for about one-third of the world’s economic output...
Intergenerational Mobility equality of opportunity EducationResearch Brief
Racial inequality and demographic change in South Africa: Impacts on economic developmentOver the past 20 years, researchers have been looking at the economic lifecycle of individuals around the world using National Transfer Accounts (NTA) data...
demographic dividend economic lifecycle Intergenerational MobilityWorking Paper
Intergenerational mobility of education in Vietnam: Evidence from the Vietnam WarVietnam’s education system has recently attracted international attention for exceptional learning outcomes and success in improving schooling outcomes over a short period, despite being a lower-middle-income country...
Intergenerational Mobility access to education WarWorking Paper
Colonial origin, ethnicity, and intergeneration mobility in AfricaThis paper estimates the relationship between differences in skills measured among within-country ethnic groups and individual human capital accumulation in eight African countries...
Colonialism Education EthnicityWorking Paper
Inequality and the generational economy: Race-disaggregated National Transfer Accounts for South Africa, 2015Differences in the economic lifecycle between countries at different levels of development suggest that there may be differences between sub-populations within countries, particularly where the sub-populations have different levels of income...
demographic dividend economic lifecycle Intergenerational MobilityPolicy Brief
Inequality in India on the riseFollowing the introduction of economic reforms in the early 1990s, India today is achieving unprecedented per capita growth rates. Poverty reduction has also accelerated and is justly celebrated...
Inequality Decomposition Welfare dynamicsWorking Paper
Inequality trends and dynamics in India: The bird’s-eye and the granular perspectivesIndia today is achieving per capita growth rates that are historically unprecedented. Poverty reduction has also accelerated. There is concern, however, that this growth is being accompanied by rising inequality...
Inequality Decomposition Welfare dynamicsWorking Paper
Intergenerational mobility, human capital accumulation, and growth in IndiaProductivity and socio-economic progress are inter-connected. Economic growth funds policies that promote socio-economic progress, while the latter serves as a growth engine...
Intergenerational Mobility Inequality GrowthWorking Paper
Returns to education, intergenerational mobility, and inequality trends in BrazilEducation-related changes are often argued as the main reasons for changes in earnings distribution. However, omitted variable and measurement error biases possibly affect econometric estimates of these effects...
Earnings inequality Schooling reurns Intergenerational Mobility