Magical Transition? : Intergenerational Educational and Occupational Mobility in Rural China, 1988–2002
This paper presents evidence on intergenerational educational and occupational mobility in rural China over a period of 14 years (1988–2002). To understand whether the estimated inter-generational persistence can be driven solely by unobserved...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2015
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/06/24679223/magical-transition-intergenerational-educational-occupational-mobility-rural-china-19882002 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22201 |
| Summary: | This paper presents evidence on
intergenerational educational and occupational mobility in
rural China over a period of 14 years (1988–2002). To
understand whether the estimated inter-generational
persistence can be driven solely by unobserved
heterogeneity, biprobit sensitivity analysis and
heteroskedasticity-based identification are implemented. The
empirical results show that there have been dramatic
improvements in occupational mobility from agriculture to
nonfarm occupations; a farmer’s children are not any more
likely to become farmers in 2002, although there was
significant persistence in occupation choices in 1988. In
contrast, the intergenerational mobility in educational
attainment has remained largely unchanged for daughters, and
it has deteriorated significantly for sons. There is strong
evidence of a causal effect of parental education on a son’s
schooling in 2002. The paper provides some possible
explanations for the dramatic divergence between
occupational and educational mobility in rural China from
1988 to 2002. |
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