Most studies of intergenerational mobility focus on adjacent generations, and there is limited
knowledge about multigenerational mobility—status transmission across three generations …

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 …

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 …

Two essential strategies to understand the mechanisms of intergenerational mobility are to
compare mobility across countries and across time. However, for multi-generational mobility …

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 …

This article examines the effects of parents' educational backgrounds and career
preferences on their children's educational and employment opportunities in India's various …

We incorporate gender bias against girls in the family, the school and the labor market in a
model of intergenerational persistence in schooling where parents self-finance children's …

Much of the global evidence on intergenerational income mobility is based on sub-optimal
data. In particular, two-stage techniques are widely used to impute parental incomes for …

This paper revisits the two-sample two-stage least squares (TSTSLS) method, commonly
used to estimate intergenerational mobility measures without linked parent–child earnings …

This paper presents credible and comparable evidence on intergenerational educational
mobility in 53 developing countries using sibling correlation as a measure, and data from …