Economic shocks, educational attainment, and intergenerational mobility: Evidence from Mozambique

Giulia Barletta and Sam Jones

No wp-2026-114, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: Aggregate economic shocks can permanently alter children's educational trajectories, but it remains unclear whether they weaken intergenerational persistence or instead harden it. This paper studies the collapse of Mozambique's sugar estate sector as a severe economic shock that hit estate communities while children were growing up. We use the Vulnerable Lives Survey (VLS) 2024, the first retrospective intergenerational survey in Mozambique, and complement it with a cohabiting sample from the 1997 National Census.

Keywords: Education; Intergenerational Mobility; economic shocks; Mozambique (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
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