Intergenerational Educational Mobility: evidence from three approaches for Brazil,Chile, Uruguay and the USA (1995-2006)

Graciela Sanromán ()
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Graciela Sanromán: Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de la República

No 110, Documentos de Trabajo (working papers) from Department of Economics - dECON

Abstract: In this paper we estimate intergenerational educational mobility for Brazil, Chile, Uruguay and the USA along the period 1995-2006. We propose an in- dex of intergenerational mobility based on the variance decomposition in an error-components model. We estimate three indexes of mobility: one based on the autoregressive Markov-chain regression, the second is the Dahan-Gaviria index and the last one is the index proposed in this work. We use data of teenagers and parents education and address the issue of top-censoring. We distinguish between relative and absolute mobility. We draw empirical conclusions for each country and compare results. We analyze theoretical and empirical attributes of indexes.

Keywords: Intergenerational Educational Mobility; Error-components Model; Censored data. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C24 C51 J62 O54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 55 pages
Date: 2010-02
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