Decentralizing the Chilean miracle: regional intergenerational mobility in a developing country

We estimate spatially disaggregated measures of intergenerational mobility in Chile through an administrative dataset linking children’s and their parents’ earnings from the formal private labour sector. report remarkable heterogeneity as we find higher lower upward mining agricultural regions, respectively, corroborating previous findings by Connolly et al. 2019 with distinction that is a unitary state, implying factors other than institutional differences shape mobility.