The literature on intergenerational income mobility uses a diverse set of measures and there
is limited knowledge about whether these measures provide similar information and yield …

The extent to which people's social status is associated with their parents' status has far-
reaching implications for the openness of and stratification in society. Whereas most …

Estimates of shared environmental influence on educational attainment (EA) using the
Classical Twin Design (CTD) have been enlisted as genetically sensitive measures of …

How strong is the transmission of socio-economic status across generations in Latin
America? To answer this question, we first review the empirical literature on …

We study the relationship between educational inequality, income inequality and economic
transformation using data of 20 OECD countries from 1870 to 2016. Our results show that …

This paper estimates intergenerational mobility in education using data from 91 censuses in
24 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean spanning over half a century. It measures …

The fact that financial exclusion leads to income inequality is detrimental to sustainable
economic growth. Digital finance facilitates the provision of financial services to poor people …

We provide novel evidence of the impact of coresidence bias on a large set of indicators of
intergenerational mobility in education. We begin re-examining a recent claim that the …

The paper presents a first global investigation of the longer-term inequality implications of
COVID-19 by examining the effect of school closures on the ability of children from different …

The objective of the study is to analyze the multifaceted crises affecting global development,
such as the Covid-19 pandemic, climate change, and increasing inequality. It critiques the …