Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/71623 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 7318
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We investigate long-term trends in the intergenerational transmission of education in a low income country undergoing a transition from socialism to a market economy. We draw on evidence from Kyrgyzstan using data from three household surveys collected in 1993, 1998 and 2011. We find that Kyrgyzstan, like Eastern European middle income transition economies, generally maintained high educational mobility, comparable to the levels during Soviet times. However, we find that the younger cohorts, who were exposed to the transition during their school years, experienced a rapid decline in educational mobility. We also document that gender differences in schooling and educational mobility, found among older-aged individuals, disappeared in the younger population.
Subjects: 
intergenerational mobility
educational attainment
gender
transition economy
Kyrgyzstan
Central Asia
JEL: 
J62
P36
I25
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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