Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/256765 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Paper No. 298
Publisher: 
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München und Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Collaborative Research Center Transregio 190 - Rationality and Competition, München und Berlin
Abstract: 
We characterize intergenerational mobility in Germany using census data on educational attainment and parental income for 526,000 children. Our measure of educational attainment is the A-Level degree, a requirement for access to university. A 10 percentile increase in the parental income rank is associated with a 5.2 percentage point increase in the A-Level share. This parental income gradient has not changed for the birth cohorts of 1980-1996, despite a large-scale policy of expanding upper secondary education. At the regional level, there exists substantial variation in mobility estimates. Place effects, rather than sorting of households, account for most of these differences.
Subjects: 
Intergenerational Mobility
Educational Attainment
Local Labor Markets
JEL: 
I24
J62
R23
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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