Intergenerational mobility in Latin America: The multiple facets of social status and the role of mothers

Matías Ciaschi, Mariana Marchionni and Guido Neidhöfer

No 25-042, ZEW Discussion Papers from ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research

Abstract: We assess intergenerational mobility in terms of education and income rank in five Latin American countries - Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, and Panama - by accounting for the education and occupation of both parents. Based on the Lubotsky and Wittenberg (2006) approach, we find that intergenerational persistence estimates increase by 26% to 50% when parents' occupations are considered alongside their education to proxy family socioeconomic background. The increase is particularly strong when education is more evenly distributed in the parents' generation. Furthermore, we assess how the informativeness of each proxy for parental background evolves across countries and over time, and find that maternal characteristics have become increasingly informative in recent decades, in line with rising women's educational attainment and labor force participation. Interesting heterogeneities across countries and cohorts are observed.

Keywords: Intergenerational Mobility; Education; Occupation; Mothers; Latin America (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D63 J62 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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Working Paper: Intergenerational Mobility in Latin America: The Multiple Facets of Social Status and the Role of Mothers (2023)
Working Paper: Intergenerational mobility in Latin America: the multiple facets of social status and the role of mothers (2021)
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