Social Mobility in Latin America: Links with Adolescent Schooling

Lykke E. Andersen ()

No 3130, RES Working Papers from Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department

Abstract: This paper proposes a new measure of social mobility. It is based on schooling gap regressions and uses the Fields decomposition to determine the importance of family background in explaining teenagers schooling gaps.

Date: 2001-07
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