Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/308500 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Citation: 
[Journal:] Journal of Economic Growth [ISSN:] 1573-7020 [Volume:] 29 [Issue:] 2 [Publisher:] Springer US [Place:] New York, NY [Year:] 2023 [Pages:] 327-359
Publisher: 
Springer US, New York, NY
Abstract: 
We explore the relationship between social mobility and economic development. First, we map the geography of intergenerational mobility in education for 52 Latin American regions, and examine its evolution over time. Then, through a new weighting procedure considering the level of participation of various cohorts in the economy in each year, we estimate the association between changes in mobility and regional economic indicators, such as income per capita, inequality, poverty, labor formality, and luminosity. Our findings show that increasing social mobility is consistently associated with economic development and growth in Latin America.
Subjects: 
Intergenerational mobility
Equality of opportunity
Development
Growth
Latin America
JEL: 
D63
I24
J62
O15
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Document Type: 
Article
Document Version: 
Published Version

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