Colonial origin, ethnicity, and intergeneration mobility in Africa

Patricia Funjika and Yoseph Getachew

No wp-2019-64, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: This paper estimates the relationship between differences in skills measured among within-country ethnic groups and individual human capital accumulation in eight African countries. Our results show that the skills of an individual in these countries depends more on the human capital levels of their parents' ethnic group (ethnic capital) than on parental investment. Therefore, differences in initial levels of ethnic capital may explain the persistence of ethnicitybased differences in educational attainment over time.

Keywords: Colonialism; Education; Ethnicity; Human capital; Intergenerational Mobility (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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