Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/250375 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
Documento de Trabajo No. 286
Publisher: 
Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS), La Plata
Abstract: 
We explore the role of social mobility as a driver of economic development by constructing a panel data set that includes measures of intergenerational mobility of education at the sub-national level in Latin America. First, we map the geography of educational mobility for 52 Latin American regions, as well as its evolution over time. Then, through a novel weighting procedure that considers the participation of cohorts to the economy in each year, we estimate the effect of changes in mobility on economic indicators, such as income per capita, poverty, child mortality, and luminosity. Hereby, we control for several covariates, including migration, educational expansions, initial conditions, and unobserved cross-regional heterogeneity. Our findings show that increasing social mobility had a significant and robust impact 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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