The Great Gatsby Curve in education with a kink

Andros Kourtellos

Economics Letters, 2021, vol. 208, issue C

Abstract: This paper investigates the presence of a kink in the relationship between intergenerational mobility in education and inequality in education using a regression kink model with an unknown threshold. We uncover evidence of a regression kink effect in absolute upward mobility of education due to high inequality in education. At lower levels of inequality of parental education the relationship between intergenerational mobility in education and the Gini coefficient of parental education is positive but there exists a critical point over which the slope of the relationship becomes negative. This finding is consistent with the presence of multiple regimes (equilibria) in the cross-country intergenerational mobility process.

Keywords: Threshold regression; Regression kink; Intergenerational mobility in education; Nonparametric method (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C13 C21 C49 C51 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2021.110054

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