Intergenerational persistence of educational attainment in Italy

Daniele Checchi, Carlo Fiorio () and Marco Leonardi

Economics Letters, 2013, vol. 118, issue 1, 229-232

Abstract: In this paper we suggest a simple decomposition of the correlation coefficient of education to account for the different intergenerational mobility of subgroups of the population, which is of key importance from a policy perspective.

Keywords: Educational attainment; Intergenerational mobility; Correlation coefficient (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 I28 J62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (67)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165176512005769
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
Working Paper: Intergenerational Persistence in Educational Attainment in Italy (2008)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:ecolet:v:118:y:2013:i:1:p:229-232

DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2012.10.033

Access Statistics for this article

Economics Letters is currently edited by Economics Letters Editorial Office

More articles in Economics Letters from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().