Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/324336 
Year of Publication: 
2025
Series/Report no.: 
Jena Economic Research Papers No. 2025-009
Publisher: 
Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Jena
Abstract: 
This study investigates intergenerational educational immobility and its transmission channels in four developing countries: Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam. From data elicited throughout children's childhood, we extract latent factors of children's attributes and their environments. We decompose educational immobility by analyzing the extent to which these factors mediate intergenerational persistence. The findings show that relevant channels in developed countries are also important in these developing countries. Additionally, developing-country specific factors, such as starting a family while underage and performing child labor, play a role. The factors' importance differs moderately between the countries. Other factors - most notably non-cognitive skills - play no role.
Subjects: 
Intergenerational social mobility
transmission channels
low- and middle-income countries
decomposition
mediation analysis
factor analysis
JEL: 
I24
J62
O15
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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