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Ahsan, Md. Nazmul; Emran, M. Shahe; Jiang, Hanchen; Han, Qingyang; Shilpi, Forhad – World Bank, 2023
This paper presents credible and comparable evidence on intergenerational educational mobility in 53 developing countries using sibling correlation as a measure, and data from 230 waves of Demographic and Health Surveys. It is the first paper to provide estimates of sibling correlation in schooling for a large number of developing countries using…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Educational Mobility, Generational Differences, Siblings
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Emran, M. Shahe; Shilpi, Forhad – Journal of Human Resources, 2011
This paper presents evidence on intergenerational occupational mobility from agriculture to the nonfarm sector using survey data from Nepal and Vietnam. In the absence of credible instruments, the degree of selection on observables is used as a guide to the degree of selection on unobservables, a la Altonji et al. (2005) to address the unobserved…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Generational Differences, Occupational Mobility, Agricultural Occupations