Intergenerational Educational Mobility within Chile

Ercio Muñoz

No 14086, IDB Publications (Working Papers) from Inter-American Development Bank

Abstract: I provide estimates of intergenerational mobility (IGM) in education at a disaggregated geographic level for Chile, a country with high school-level stratification by socioeconomic status and a decentralized administration of public schools. I document wide variation across communes. Relative mobility is correlated to the number of doctors, the number of students per teacher, and earnings inequality. Using a LASSO, I find that the share of students enrolled in public schools, the number of students per teacher, population density, and municipal budget are the strongest predictors of IGM. I also document within-country variability in how parental education is associated with other children's outcomes.

Keywords: Socioeconomic mobility; Geography; Intergenerational mobility in Education; Education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D63 I24 J62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025-04
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DOI: 10.18235/0013513

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