Countercyclical school attainment and intergenerational mobility

Andreu Arenas () and Clément Malgouyres
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Andreu Arenas: CORE, Université catholique de Louvain

No 2017038, LIDAM Discussion Papers CORE from Université catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE)

Abstract: We study how economic conditions at the time of choosing post-compulsory education affect intergenerational mobility. Exploiting local variation in birthplace unemployment rate at age 16 across 23 cohorts in France, we find that cohorts deciding on post-compulsory education in bad economic times are more educationally mobile - their level of education is less related to having a white-collar father. These cohorts are also more occupationally mobile; and a large fraction of this effect is explaiend by business cycle-induced differences in educational attainment. Accounting for differential spatial mobility between birth and age 16 by parental background confirms the results.

Keywords: intergenerational mobility; business cycle; human capital; occupational choice (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E24 I21 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-12-22
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Journal Article: Countercyclical school attainment and intergenerational mobility (2018)
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