When Measure Matters: Coresidence Bias and Integenerational Mobility Revisited

Ercio Muñoz Saavedra and Mariel Siravegna

No 12832, IDB Publications (Working Papers) from Inter-American Development Bank

Abstract: We provide novel evidence of the impact of coresidence bias on a large set of indicators of intergenerational mobility in education. We begin re-examining a recent claim that the correlation coecient is less biased than the regression coecient. Then, we expand our analysis to show that there are indicators with varying average levels of coresidence bias going from less than 1% to more than 10%. However, some indicators with minimal bias produce high levels of re-ranking that make them uninformative to rank populations by the level of mobility. In contrast, other indicators with large bias generate more reliable rankings.

Keywords: Intergenerational mobility; Education; Coresidence bias; Truncation bias; Coresidency; survey data; Census data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D63 I24 J62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-05
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DOI: 10.18235/0004881

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