What the Mean Measures of Mobility Miss : Learning About Intergenerational Mobility from Conditional Variance (English)

To understand the role of family background in intergenerational mobility, a large literature has focused on the conditional mean of children's economic outcomes given parent's economic status, while ignoring the information contained in conditional variance. This paper explores the effects of family background on the conditional variance of children's outcomes in the context of intergenerational educational mobility using data from three large developing...
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Ahsan,Md. Nazmul; Emran, M. Shahe; Jiang,Hanchen; Shilpi,Forhad J..

What the Mean Measures of Mobility Miss : Learning About Intergenerational Mobility from Conditional Variance (English). Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 10074 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099056206072213120

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