Growing up Together : Sibling Correlation, Parental Influence, and Intergenerational Educational Mobility in Developing Countries / Md Nazmul Ahsan [and four others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ahsan, Md Nazmul, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Child development.

Child rearing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (48 pages)

Other Title:

Growing up Together

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : World Bank, 2023.

Summary:

This paper presents credible and comparable evidence on intergenerational educational mobility in 53 developing countries using sibling correlation as a measure, and data from 230 waves of Demographic and Health Surveys. It is the first paper to provide estimates of sibling correlation in schooling for a large number of developing countries using high quality standardized data. Sibling correlation is an omnibus measure of mobility as it captures observed and unobserved family and neighborhood factors shared by siblings when growing up together. The estimates suggest that sibling correlation in schooling in developing countries is much higher (average 0.59) than that in developed countries (average 0.41). There is substantial spatial heterogeneity across regions, with Latin America and Caribbean having the highest (0.65) and Europe and Central Asia the lowest (0.48) estimates. Country level heterogeneity within a region is more pronounced.

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Publisher Number:

10.1596/1813-9450-10285