Progress and persistence: race and intergenerational educational mobility in South Africa

Timothy Köhler and Morné Oosthuizen

No wp-2026-56, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: How does the role of key inherited circumstances in explaining intergenerational mobility change over time as economies undergo major structural changes? We examine this question in the context of intergenerational educational mobility in South Africa—one of the most unequal countries in the world, where inequality has historically been rooted in a single inherited circumstance: race.

Keywords: Intergenerational Mobility; Educational mobility; Inequality of opportunities; South Africa; Race (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
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