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Intergenerational Mobility around the World / Roy van der Weide.
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications") Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- van der Weide, Roy.
- Series:
- Policy research working papers.
- World Bank e-Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Economics of Education.
- Education.
- Education Finance.
- Gender.
- Gender and Development.
- Inequality.
- Intergenerational Mobility.
- Poverty Reduction.
- Local Subjects:
- Economics of Education.
- Education.
- Education Finance.
- Gender.
- Gender and Development.
- Inequality.
- Intergenerational Mobility.
- Poverty Reduction.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (47 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, 2021.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- 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.
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