Occupational dualism and intergenerational educational mobility in the rural economy: evidence from China and India

M. Shahe Emran, Francisco Ferreira, Yajing Jiang and Yan Sun
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Yajing Jiang: Charles River Associates
Yan Sun: World Bank

The Journal of Economic Inequality, 2023, vol. 21, issue 3, No 11, 743-773

Abstract: Abstract We extend the Becker-Tomes model to a rural economy with farm-nonfarm occupational dualism to study intergenerational educational mobility in rural China and India. Using data free of coresidency bias, we find that fathers’ nonfarm occupation and education were complementary in determining sons schooling in India, but separable in China. Sons faced lower mobility in India irrespective of fathers’ occupation. Sensitivity analysis using the Altonji et al. (J. Polit. Econ. 113(1), 151–84, 2005) approach suggests that genetic correlations alone could explain the intergenerational persistence in China, but not in India. Farm-nonfarm differences in returns to education, and geographic mobility are plausible mechanisms behind the contrasting cross-country evidence.

Keywords: Educational mobility; Rural economy; Occupational dualism; Farm-nonfarm; Complementarity; Coresidency Bias; China; India (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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