Does It Matter Where You Grow Up? Childhood Exposure Effects in Latin America and the Caribbean
This paper studies 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. The analysis e...
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okr-10986-374152022-05-14T05:10:40Z Does It Matter Where You Grow Up? Childhood Exposure Effects in Latin America and the Caribbean Munoz Saavedra, Ercio Andres EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION FAMILY ENVIRONMENT HOUSEHOLDS WITH CHILD This paper studies 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. The analysis exploits differences in the ages of children at the time their families moved across locations, to isolate regional childhood exposure effects from sorting. The findings show a convergence rate of 3.5 percent per year of exposure between age 1 to 11, implying that children who moved at age of 1 would pick up 35 percent of the observed differences in mobility between origin and destination. These results are robust to using a specification that identifies the effect of place within households, the use of only anomalously high migration outflows, instrumenting the choice of destination with historical migration, and a combination of both approaches. 2022-05-13T15:39:38Z 2022-05-13T15:39:38Z 2022-05-06 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099759305062223937/IDU0f0564ccc089dd0461a09ecf07541e9798c35 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37415 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank Washington, DC: World Bank Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research |
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EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION FAMILY ENVIRONMENT HOUSEHOLDS WITH CHILD Munoz Saavedra, Ercio Andres Does It Matter Where You Grow Up? Childhood Exposure Effects in Latin America and the Caribbean |
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This paper studies 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. The analysis exploits
differences in the ages of children at the time their
families moved across locations, to isolate regional
childhood exposure effects from sorting. The findings show a
convergence rate of 3.5 percent per year of exposure between
age 1 to 11, implying that children who moved at age of 1
would pick up 35 percent of the observed differences in
mobility between origin and destination. These results are
robust to using a specification that identifies the effect
of place within households, the use of only anomalously high
migration outflows, instrumenting the choice of destination
with historical migration, and a combination of both approaches. |
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Working Paper |
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Munoz Saavedra, Ercio Andres |
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Munoz Saavedra, Ercio Andres |
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Munoz Saavedra, Ercio Andres |
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Does It Matter Where You Grow Up? Childhood Exposure Effects in Latin America and the Caribbean |
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Does It Matter Where You Grow Up? Childhood Exposure Effects in Latin America and the Caribbean |
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Does It Matter Where You Grow Up? Childhood Exposure Effects in Latin America and the Caribbean |
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Does It Matter Where You Grow Up? Childhood Exposure Effects in Latin America and the Caribbean |
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Does It Matter Where You Grow Up? Childhood Exposure Effects in Latin America and the Caribbean |
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does it matter where you grow up? childhood exposure effects in latin america and the caribbean |
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Washington, DC: World Bank |
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2022 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099759305062223937/IDU0f0564ccc089dd0461a09ecf07541e9798c35 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37415 |
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