From parents to children: tracking gendered mobility in Indian education

Rajdeep Chaudhuri, Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay and Kunal Sen

No wp-2026-54, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: We study gender differences in intergenerational educational mobility in India using the Longitudinal Ageing Study in India (LASI), which provides a substantially larger and more gender-balanced set of parent-child pairs than previously available data. We estimate absolute and positional mobility for cohorts born between 1945 and 1995 and document large, persistent gender gaps. Daughters exhibit lower absolute mobility relative to sons, with these gaps widening over time because sons experience significantly greater mobility gains.

Keywords: Human capital; Intergenerational Mobility; Gender; Longitudinal data analysis; India (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
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