Intergenerational mobility around the world: A new database

Roy van der Weide, Christoph Lakner, Daniel Gerszon Mahler, Ambar Narayan and Rakesh Gupta

Journal of Development Economics, 2024, vol. 166, issue C

Abstract: Using individual data from over 400 household surveys, this paper compiles a global database of intergenerational mobility in education for 153 countries covering 97 percent of the world's population. Intergenerational mobility in education is estimated to be lower in the average developing country than in the average high-income country. Children in the developing world have been less successful at surpassing their parents' education, despite the lower levels of parental education. The poorer the country, the more likely it is that individuals born to parents who do not have an education lack the means to get an education. The world as a whole is estimated to be less mobile than the average country in it, which highlights the importance of the country in which one obtains his/her education.

Keywords: Intergenerational mobility; Inequality; Education; Poverty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 D63 I24 J62 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2023.103167

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