Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/229651 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
GLO Discussion Paper No. 779
Publisher: 
Global Labor Organization (GLO), Essen
Abstract: 
This paper examines the impact of the SARS epidemic in 2003 on intergenerational mobility in China. Using large cross-city variation in SARS cases, our triple difference-in-differences estimates suggest that the SARS epidemic significantly increases the intergenerational transmission of education. Our results show that a one percent increase in the number of SARS cases leads to a 9.3 percent increase in the maternal intergeneration transmission coefficient. The effect of the SARS epidemic is stronger for admission to 4-year bachelor programmes and more concentrated in female students and students in large cities. This paper also investigates the potential mechanisms and finds that more highly educated mothers tend to be more engaged in children's studies during the epidemic period when teachers are absent. These results convey the warning message that pandemics may reduce intergenerational mobility of education
Subjects: 
Pandemic
Epidemic
intergenerational mobility
SARS
JEL: 
I24
I18
J62
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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