Does Improved Local Supply of Schooling Enhance Intergenerational Mobility in Education? : Evidence from Jordan
The impact of the growth of the local supply of public schools in the post-Colonial period on intergenerational mobility in education is a first-order question in the Arab World. This question is examined in Jordan using a unique dataset that links...
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okr-10986-251362021-04-23T14:04:29Z Does Improved Local Supply of Schooling Enhance Intergenerational Mobility in Education? : Evidence from Jordan Assaad, Ragui Saleh, Mohamed intergenerational mobility education inequality school supply secondary education basic education gender The impact of the growth of the local supply of public schools in the post-Colonial period on intergenerational mobility in education is a first-order question in the Arab World. This question is examined in Jordan using a unique dataset that links individual data on own schooling and parents' schooling for adults, from a household survey, with the supply of schools in the subdistrict of birth at the time the individual was of age to enroll, from a school census. The identification strategy exploits the variation in the supply of basic and secondary public schools across cohorts and subdistricts of birth in Jordan, controlling for year and subdistrict-of-birth fixed effects and interactions of governorate and year-of-birth fixed effects. The findings show that the local availability of basic public schools does, in fact, increase intergenerational mobility in education. For instance, a one standard deviation increase in the supply of basic public schools per 1,000 people reduces the father-son and mother-son associations of schooling by 18-20 percent and the father-daughter and mother-daughter associations by 33-44 percent. However, an increase in the local supply of secondary public schools does not seem to have an effect on the intergenerational mobility in education. 2016-10-07T20:09:08Z 2016-10-07T20:09:08Z 2016-09 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/09/26791196/improved-local-supply-schooling-enhance-intergenerational-mobility-education-evidence-jordan http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25136 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 7825 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Middle East and North Africa Jordan |
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The impact of the growth of the local
supply of public schools in the post-Colonial period on
intergenerational mobility in education is a first-order
question in the Arab World. This question is examined in
Jordan using a unique dataset that links individual data on
own schooling and parents' schooling for adults, from a
household survey, with the supply of schools in the
subdistrict of birth at the time the individual was of age
to enroll, from a school census. The identification strategy
exploits the variation in the supply of basic and secondary
public schools across cohorts and subdistricts of birth in
Jordan, controlling for year and subdistrict-of-birth fixed
effects and interactions of governorate and year-of-birth
fixed effects. The findings show that the local availability
of basic public schools does, in fact, increase
intergenerational mobility in education. For instance, a one
standard deviation increase in the supply of basic public
schools per 1,000 people reduces the father-son and
mother-son associations of schooling by 18-20 percent and
the father-daughter and mother-daughter associations by
33-44 percent. However, an increase in the local supply of
secondary public schools does not seem to have an effect on
the intergenerational mobility in education. |
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Assaad, Ragui Saleh, Mohamed |
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Assaad, Ragui Saleh, Mohamed |
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Assaad, Ragui |
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Does Improved Local Supply of Schooling Enhance Intergenerational Mobility in Education? : Evidence from Jordan |
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Does Improved Local Supply of Schooling Enhance Intergenerational Mobility in Education? : Evidence from Jordan |
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Does Improved Local Supply of Schooling Enhance Intergenerational Mobility in Education? : Evidence from Jordan |
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Does Improved Local Supply of Schooling Enhance Intergenerational Mobility in Education? : Evidence from Jordan |
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Does Improved Local Supply of Schooling Enhance Intergenerational Mobility in Education? : Evidence from Jordan |
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does improved local supply of schooling enhance intergenerational mobility in education? : evidence from jordan |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2016 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/09/26791196/improved-local-supply-schooling-enhance-intergenerational-mobility-education-evidence-jordan http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25136 |
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