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When Measure Matters : Coresidency, Truncation Bias, and Intergenerational Mobility in Developing Countries / M. Shahe Emran.
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications") Available online
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- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Emran, M. Shahe.
- Series:
- Policy research working papers.
- World Bank e-Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Coresidency.
- Developing Countries.
- Disability.
- Education.
- Educational Sciences.
- Intergenerational Correlation (IGC).
- Intergenerational Mobility.
- Intergenerational Regression Coefficient (IGRC).
- Primary Education.
- Science and Technology Development.
- Science Education.
- Scientific Research and Science Parks.
- Social Protections and Labor.
- Truncation Bias.
- Local Subjects:
- Coresidency.
- Developing Countries.
- Disability.
- Education.
- Educational Sciences.
- Intergenerational Correlation (IGC).
- Intergenerational Mobility.
- Intergenerational Regression Coefficient (IGRC).
- Primary Education.
- Science and Technology Development.
- Science Education.
- Scientific Research and Science Parks.
- Social Protections and Labor.
- Truncation Bias.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (43 pages)
- Other Title:
- When Measure Matters
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, 2016.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- Biases from truncation caused by coresidency restriction have been a challenge for research on intergenerational mobility. Estimates of intergenerational schooling persistence from two data sets show that the intergenerational regression coefficient, the most widely used measure, is severely biased downward in coresident samples. But the bias in intergenerational correlation is much smaller, and is less sensitive to the coresidency rate. The paper provides explanations for these results. Comparison of intergenerational mobility based on the intergenerational regression coefficient across countries, gender, and over time can be misleading. Much progress on intergenerational mobility in developing countries can be made with the available data by focusing on intergenerational correlation.
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