Economic approach to intergenerational mobility: Measures, methods, and challenges in developing countries

M. Shahe Emran and Forhad Shilpi

No wp-2019-98, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: This paper provides a critical survey and synthesis of the recent economic literature on intergenerational mobility in developing countries, with a focus on data and methodological challenges. The attenuation due to measurement error is compounded by sample truncation resulting from co-residency and causes substantial downward bias in intergenerational regression coefficient. In contrast, intergenerational correlation and intergenerational rank correlation are much more robust to such data limitations.

Keywords: Social mobility; Intergenerational elasticity; Developing countries; Measurement error; Rank correlation; Sample truncation; Sibling correlation; Co-residency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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