Intergenerational educational mobility in Latin America. An analysis from the equal opportunity approach

Maribel Jiménez () and Mónica Jiménez ()

Revista Cuadernos de Economia, 2019, vol. 38, issue 76, 289-330

Abstract: The objective of this study is to examine intergenerational educational mobility (IEM) in Latin America and its relation to the concept of equal opportunity (EOP). To this end, using the Latinobarómetro survey, a new technique is applied to measure the degree of overlap between the observed conditional density of the children’s education given the parents' education and the theoretical density corresponding to an EOP situation. The main results show a significant increase in mean IEM levels. However, there is no improvement in EOP levels among children of parents with the lowest levels of education. ***** El objetivo de este artículo es examinar la movilidad educativa intergeneracional (MEI) en América Latina desde el enfoque de igualdad de oportunidades (EOP). Para ello se implementa, utilizando los datos de la encuesta Latinobarómetro, unatécnica novedosa que mide el grado de solapamiento entre la densidad conjunta observada de la educación de hijos y padres y la densidad teórica correspondiente a una situación de EOP. Los principales resultados muestran un aumento significativo en los valores promedio de MEI. Pero no se aprecia una mejora de las medidas de EOP entre los hijos de padres con los niveles educativos más bajos.

Keywords: Movilidad intergeneracional; Educación; Igualdad de oportunidades; Índice de solapamiento; América Latina; Mobilidade intergeracional; educação; igualdade de oportunidades; sobreposição; América Latina. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C14 D63 I21 J62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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