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A multi-country study of inter-generational educational mobility

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Chevalier, Arnaud 
Denny, Kevin 
McMahon, Dorren 
Uri
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/936
Date Issued
May 2003
Date Available
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Abstract
This paper analyses intergenerational educational mobility using survey data for twenty countries. We find that a number of interesting patterns emerge. Estimating a measure of mobility as movement and an index of mobility as equality of opportunity we find that while these two measures are positively correlated, the correlation is far from perfect. Examining the link with educational inequality we find evidence which suggests an inverse relationship between mobility and inequality consistent with egalitarian theory. The relationship between mobility appears to be weak, high returns to education do not depress mobility, as some human capital theories would suggest. Mobility appears to be somewhat higher for men whereas equality is much the same for both sexes. There is evidence that mobility as equality of opportunity has risen consistent with modernization theory. There is no evidence that expansion of third level education has led to a fall in the penalty associated with having a low educated parent. Estimates of marginal mobility are quite different from average mobility.
Type of Material
Working Paper
Publisher
University College Dublin. School of Economics
Series
UCD Centre for Economic Research Working Paper Series
WP03/14
Copyright (Published Version)
UCD School of Economics 2003
Subject – LCSH
Educational mobility
Educational equalization
Web versions
http://www.ucd.ie/economics/research/papers/2003/WP03.14.pdf
Language
English
Status of Item
Not peer reviewed
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