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Does Improved Local Supply of Schooling Enhance Intergenerational Mobility in Education?: Evidence from Jordan

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dc.contributor.authorAssaad, Ragui
dc.contributor.authorSaleh, Mohamed
dc.date.accessioned2016-10-07T20:09:08Z
dc.date.available2016-10-07T20:09:08Z
dc.date.issued2016-09
dc.description.abstractThe impact of the growth of the local supply of public schools in the post-Colonial period on intergenerational mobility in education is a first-order question in the Arab World. This question is examined in Jordan using a unique dataset that links individual data on own schooling and parents' schooling for adults, from a household survey, with the supply of schools in the subdistrict of birth at the time the individual was of age to enroll, from a school census. The identification strategy exploits the variation in the supply of basic and secondary public schools across cohorts and subdistricts of birth in Jordan, controlling for year and subdistrict-of-birth fixed effects and interactions of governorate and year-of-birth fixed effects. The findings show that the local availability of basic public schools does, in fact, increase intergenerational mobility in education. For instance, a one standard deviation increase in the supply of basic public schools per 1,000 people reduces the father-son and mother-son associations of schooling by 18-20 percent and the father-daughter and mother-daughter associations by 33-44 percent. However, an increase in the local supply of secondary public schools does not seem to have an effect on the intergenerational mobility in education.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/09/26791196/improved-local-supply-schooling-enhance-intergenerational-mobility-education-evidence-jordan
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-7825
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/25136
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPolicy Research Working Paper;No. 7825
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.subjectintergenerational mobility
dc.subjecteducation
dc.subjectinequality
dc.subjectschool supply
dc.subjectsecondary education
dc.subjectbasic education
dc.subjectgender
dc.titleDoes Improved Local Supply of Schooling Enhance Intergenerational Mobility in Education?en
dc.title.subtitleEvidence from Jordanen
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okr.associatedcontenthttps://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/33530 Journal Article (version of record)
okr.crossref.titleDoes Improved Local Supply of Schooling Enhance Intergenerational Mobility in Education? Evidence from Jordan
okr.date.disclosure2016-09-15
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okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/09/26791196/improved-local-supply-schooling-enhance-intergenerational-mobility-education-evidence-jordan
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okr.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-7825
okr.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1596/1813-9450-7825
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okr.region.administrativeMiddle East and North Africa
okr.region.countryJordan
okr.topicEducation::Access & Equity in Basic Education
okr.topicEducation::Education For All
okr.topicEducation::Primary Education
okr.topicPoverty Reduction::Development Patterns and Poverty
okr.topicPoverty Reduction::Equity and Development
okr.topicPoverty Reduction::Inequality
okr.unitOperations and Strategy Team, Development Economics Vice Presidency
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