Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/289937 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
IDB Working Paper Series No. IDB-WP-01469
Publisher: 
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Washington, DC
Abstract: 
We provide novel evidence of the impact of coresidence bias on a large set of indicators of intergenerational mobility in education. We begin re-examining a recent claim that the correlation coefficient is less biased than the regression coefficient. Then, we expand our analysis to show that there are indicators with varying average levels of coresidence bias going from less than 1% to more than 10%. However, some indicators with minimal bias produce high levels of re-ranking that make them uninformative to rank populations by the level of mobility. In contrast, other indicators with large bias generate more reliable rankings.
Subjects: 
Intergenerational mobility
Education
Coresidence bias
Truncation bias,Coresidency
Survey data
Census data
JEL: 
D63
I24
J62
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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