Intergenerational Mobility around the World

Using individual data from over 400 surveys, this paper compiles a global database of intergenerational mobility in education for 153 countries covering 97 percent of the world’s population. For 87 percent of the world’s population, it provides trends in intergenerational mobility for individua...

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Main Authors:	van der Weide, Roy, Lakner, Christoph, Mahler, Daniel Gerszon, Narayan, Ambar, Ramasubbaiah, Rakesh
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2021
Subjects:	INTERGENERATIONAL MOBILITY EDUCATION POVERTY REDUCTION INEQUALITY
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/817351624329601595/Intergenerational-Mobility-around-the-World http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35827

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spelling	okr-10986-358272021-09-02T15:30:20Z Intergenerational Mobility around the World van der Weide, Roy Lakner, Christoph Mahler, Daniel Gerszon Narayan, Ambar Ramasubbaiah, Rakesh INTERGENERATIONAL MOBILITY EDUCATION POVERTY REDUCTION INEQUALITY Using individual data from over 400 surveys, this paper compiles a global database of intergenerational mobility in education for 153 countries covering 97 percent of the world’s population. For 87 percent of the world’s population, it provides trends in intergenerational mobility for individuals born between 1950 to 1989. The findings show that absolute mobility in education—the share of respondents that obtains higher levels of education than their parents—is higher in the developed world despite the higher levels of parental educational attainment. Relative mobility—measuring the degree of independence between parent and child years of schooling—is also found to be greater in the developed world. Together, these findings point to severe challenges in intergenerational mobility in the poorest parts of the world. Beyond national income levels, the paper explores the correlation between intergenerational mobility and a variety of country characteristics. Countries with higher rates of mobility have (i) higher tax revenues and rates of government expenditures, especially on education; (ii) better child health indicators (less stunting and lower infant mortality); (iii) higher school quality (more teachers per pupil and fewer school dropouts); and (iv) less residential segregation. 2021-06-24T15:13:53Z 2021-06-24T15:13:53Z 2021-06 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/817351624329601595/Intergenerational-Mobility-around-the-World http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35827 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9707 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
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spellingShingle	INTERGENERATIONAL MOBILITY EDUCATION POVERTY REDUCTION INEQUALITY van der Weide, Roy Lakner, Christoph Mahler, Daniel Gerszon Narayan, Ambar Ramasubbaiah, Rakesh Intergenerational Mobility around the World
relation	Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9707
description	Using individual data from over 400 surveys, this paper compiles a global database of intergenerational mobility in education for 153 countries covering 97 percent of the world’s population. For 87 percent of the world’s population, it provides trends in intergenerational mobility for individuals born between 1950 to 1989. The findings show that absolute mobility in education—the share of respondents that obtains higher levels of education than their parents—is higher in the developed world despite the higher levels of parental educational attainment. Relative mobility—measuring the degree of independence between parent and child years of schooling—is also found to be greater in the developed world. Together, these findings point to severe challenges in intergenerational mobility in the poorest parts of the world. Beyond national income levels, the paper explores the correlation between intergenerational mobility and a variety of country characteristics. Countries with higher rates of mobility have (i) higher tax revenues and rates of government expenditures, especially on education; (ii) better child health indicators (less stunting and lower infant mortality); (iii) higher school quality (more teachers per pupil and fewer school dropouts); and (iv) less residential segregation.
format	Working Paper
author	van der Weide, Roy Lakner, Christoph Mahler, Daniel Gerszon Narayan, Ambar Ramasubbaiah, Rakesh
author_facet	van der Weide, Roy Lakner, Christoph Mahler, Daniel Gerszon Narayan, Ambar Ramasubbaiah, Rakesh
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title	Intergenerational Mobility around the World
title_short	Intergenerational Mobility around the World
title_full	Intergenerational Mobility around the World
title_fullStr	Intergenerational Mobility around the World
title_full_unstemmed	Intergenerational Mobility around the World
title_sort	intergenerational mobility around the world
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2021
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/817351624329601595/Intergenerational-Mobility-around-the-World http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35827
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