Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/283955 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2023-1
Publisher: 
University of Massachusetts, Department of Economics, Amherst, MA
Abstract: 
We study how the intersection between skin tone and sex shapes intergenerational mobility of economic resources in Mexico. Using two recent social mobility surveys, we estimate the rank persistence and transition matrices by sex combined with skin tone groups. First, we find no differences in intergenerational mobility patterns between light-skin men and women. Second, the colorist mobility pattern observed in previous literature affects men and women differently. Namely, while women of intermediate and dark-skin tonalities have a lower expected rank than their light-skin peers, only men of the darkest tonalities suffer from the same penalization. Thirdly, women of intermediate and darker skin tones have lower persistence rates at the top of the distribution of economic resources than men of the same skin tonality.
Subjects: 
Stratification economics
Intergenerational mobility
Skin tone
Gender inequality
Mexico
JEL: 
J16
J62
O15
Z13
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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