This paper examines the role of education in intergenerational status transmission process Brazil against context marked educational expansion. We ask whether expansion has been successful reducing indirect effects social origins on destinations, mediated via schooling. Specifically, we consider positionality by adopting a relative measure. Using data from National Household Sample Survey predi...

Recent Developments in Intergenerational Mobility Economists and social scientists have long been interested in intergenerational mobility, and documenting the persistence between parents and children’s outcomes has been an active area of research. However, since Gary Solon’s 1999 Chapter in the Handbook of Labor Economics, the literature has taken an interesting turn. In addition to focusing o...

Intergenerational Transmission of Educational Attainment in Germany: The Last Five Decades Over the last decades the German education system underwent numerous reforms in order to improve "equality of opportunity", i.e. to guarantee all pupils equal access to higher education. At the same time internationally comparative evidence yields that Germany features particularly low intergenerational m...