Accounting for Intergenerational Social Immobility in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Fabian Koenings (fabian.koenings@uni-jena.de) and
Jakob Schwab (jakob.schwab@die-gdi.de)
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Fabian Koenings: Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Jakob Schwab: German Development Institute
No 2020-008, Jena Economics Research Papers from Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
Abstract:
This study investigates the transmission channels of intergenerational social immobility in developing countries. From rich longitudinal data elicited throughout children's childhood and youth, we extract latent factors of their development process. These factors comprise individual attributes as well as characteristics of children's environments. We decompose social immobility by analyzing the extent to which the different factors mediate the link between the socioeconomic statuses of parents and children. The findings indicate that relevant factors for the intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic status in developed countries - such as children's cognitive skills and aspirations - are also important in developing countries. Moreover, we confirm conjecture about the role of transmission channels that are specific to the developing country context, namely starting a family while underage and having to perform child labor. Other factors - most notably various non-cognitive skills - play no role.
Keywords: Intergenerational social mobility; transmission mechanisms; low- and middle-income countries; decomposition; mediation analysis; factor analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I24 J62 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-05-18, Revised 2021-03-12
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