Intergenerational Schooling Mobility and Macro Conditions and Schooling Policies in Latin America

Intergenerational Schooling Mobility and Macro Conditions and Schooling Policies in Latin America

The effects of market and policy reforms on poverty and inequality in Latin America have been of considerable concern. The region continues to have relatively great income inequalities. But income inequality measurements based on cross-sectional annual data are Asnapshots.@ Two different societies with the same Asnapshots@ of income distribution may have different levels of social welfare becau...

Intergenerational Schooling Mobility and Macro Conditions and Schooling Policies.PDF

The effects of market and policy reforms on poverty and inequality in Latin America have been of considerable concern. The region continues to have relatively great income inequalities. But income inequality measurements based on cross-sectional annual data are Asnapshots.@ Two different societies with the same Asnapshots@ of income distribution may have different levels of social welfare becau...

Schooling Investments and Macroeconomic Conditions: A Micro-Macro Investigation for Latin America and the Caribbean

Estimating Intergenerational Schooling Mobility on Censored Samples: Consequences and Remedies

In this paper we estimate the impact of parental schooling on child schooling, focus on the problem that children who are still in school constitute censored observations, and evaluate three solutions to it: replacement of observed with expected years of schooling, maximum likelihood approach, and elimination of all school-aged children. Using intergenerational data from the Wisconsin Longitudi...

Estimating Intergenerational Schooling Effects: A

Recent studies that aim to estimate the causal link between the education of parents and their children provide evidence that is far from conclusive. This paper explores why. There are a number of possible explanations. One is that these studies rely on different data sources, gathered in different countries at different times. Another one is that these studies use different identification stra...