This paper studies whether the observed differences across regions in upward intergenerational mobility in education in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) can be attributed to the sorting of families or the effect of growing up in these different …
In this paper, I estimate intergenerational mobility (IGM) in education using cross-sectional data from 91 censuses that span 24 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) over half a century. I measure upward mobility as the likelihood of …