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 upward mobility as the likelihood that individuals will complete one …
Measurement of intergenerational mobility (IGM) in education requires linked information about children's and parents' educational attainment. However, several economies do not offer better data alternatives to estimate IGM than the use of coresident …
I study whether the observed differences in intergenerational educational mobility across regions in Latin America and the Caribbean are due to the sorting of families or the effect of growing up in these different places. I exploit differences in …