Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/232260 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
GLO Discussion Paper No. 807
Publisher: 
Global Labor Organization (GLO), Essen
Abstract: 
We develop a model of intergenerational educational mobility incorporating gender bias against girls in the family, school, and labor market. Mobility and investment equations from the model are estimated for India using data not truncated by coresidency. The standard linear model misses important heterogeneity and yields misleading conclusions. Daughters of uneducated fathers face lower relative and absolute mobility (rural and urban). We find gender equality in absolute mobility for children of urban college educated fathers, but not in rural areas. Theoretical insights help understand the mechanisms. Parental nonfinancial inputs, unwanted girls, and patrilineal states are important for explaining the findings.
Subjects: 
Gender Bias
Intergenerational Mobility
Education
Becker-Tomes Model
Heterogeneity
Son Preference
Unwanted Girls
India
Patrilineal
Matrilineal
Coresidency Bias
JEL: 
I24
J62
J16
O20
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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