Returns to education, intergenerational mobility, and inequality trends in Brazil

Marcelo Neri and Tiago Bonomo

No wp-2018-129, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: Education-related changes are often argued as the main reasons for changes in earnings distribution. However, omitted variable and measurement error biases possibly affect econometric estimates of these effects. Brazil experienced a sharp fall of individual labour income inequality between 1996 and 2014. Coincidentally, in the Brazilian National Household Sample Survey ( PNAD) there are special supplements on family background in these two years that allow us to better address the role played by falling education returns.

Keywords: Earnings inequality; Schooling returns; Intergenerational Mobility; Omitted variable bias (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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