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Intergenerational Mobility around the World (English)

Using individual data from over 400 surveys, this paper compiles a global database of intergenerational mobility in education for 153 countries covering 97 percent of the world’s population. For 87 percent of the world’s population, it provides trends in intergenerational mobility for individuals born between 1950 to 1989. The findings show that absolute mobility in education—the share of respondents that obtains higher levels of education than their...
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Van Der Weide,Roy; Lakner,Christoph; Mahler,Daniel Gerszon; Narayan,Ambar; Nichanametla Ramasubbaiah,Rakesh Gupta.

Intergenerational Mobility around the World (English). Policy Research working paper|no. WPS 9707 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/817351624329601595

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