Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/247696 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
ZEW Discussion Papers No. 21-087
Publisher: 
ZEW - Leibniz-Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung, Mannheim
Abstract: 
We explore the role of social mobility as a driver of economic development. First, we map the geography of intergenerational mobility of education for 52 Latin American regions, as well as its evolution over time. Then, through a new weighting procedure that considers the participation of cohorts to the economy in each year, we estimate the impact of changes in mobility on regional economic indicators, such as income per capita, poverty, child mortality, and luminosity. Our findings show that increasing social mobility had a significant and robust effect on the development of Latin American regions.
Subjects: 
Intergenerational Mobility
Equality of Opportunity
Development
Growth
Latin America
JEL: 
D63
I24
J62
O15
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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