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Growing Up Together: Sibling Correlation, Parental Influence, and Intergenerational Educational Mobility in Developing Countries

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dc.contributor.authorAhsan, Md. Nazmul
dc.contributor.authorEmran, M. Shahe
dc.contributor.authorJiang, Hanchen
dc.contributor.authorHan, Qingyang
dc.contributor.authorShilpi, Forhad
dc.date.accessioned2023-02-15T17:53:58Z
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-06T16:05:13Z
dc.date.available2023-02-15T17:53:58Z
dc.date.available2023-03-06T16:05:13Z
dc.date.issued2023-01
dc.description.abstractThis paper presents credible and comparable evidence on intergenerational educational mobility in 53 developing countries using sibling correlation as a measure, and data from 230 waves of Demographic and Health Surveys. It is the first paper to provide estimates of sibling correlation in schooling for a large number of developing countries using high quality standardized data. Sibling correlation is an omnibus measure of mobility as it captures observed and unobserved family and neighborhood factors shared by siblings when growing up together. The estimates suggest that sibling correlation in schooling in developing countries is much higher (average 0.59) than that in developed countries (average 0.41). There is substantial spatial heterogeneity across regions, with Latin America and Caribbean having the highest (0.65) and Europe and Central Asia the lowest (0.48) estimates. Country level heterogeneity within a region is more pronounced. The evolution of sibling correlation suggests a variety of mobility experiences, with some regions registering a monotonically declining trend from the 1970s birth cohort to the 1990s birth cohort (Latin America and the Caribbean and East Asia and Pacific), while others remained trapped in stagnancy (South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa). The only region that experienced monotonically increasing sibling correlation is the Middle East and North Africa. The recent approach of Bingley and Cappellari (2019) is used to estimate the share of sibling correlation due to intergenerational transmission. The estimates show that when the homogeneity and independence assumptions implicit in the standard model of intergenerational transmission are relaxed, the estimated share is much larger. In the sample of countries, on average 74 percent of sibling correlation can be attributed to intergenerational transmission, while there are some countries where the share is more than 80 percent (most in Sub-Saharan Africa). This suggests a dominant role for parents in determining the educational opportunities of their children. Evidence on the evolution of the intergenerational share, however, suggests a declining importance of the intergenerational transmission component in many countries, but the pattern is diverse. In some cases, the trend in the intergenerational share is opposite to the trend in sibling correlation.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099936501252316138/IDU0627246cd0f71204b130b3130f57c07720601
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-10285
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/39440
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPolicy Research Working Papers;10285
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subjectSIBLING CORRELATION
dc.subjectINTERGENERATIONAL MOBILITY
dc.subjectEDUCATION
dc.subjectYEARS OF SCHOOLING
dc.subjectINTERGENERATIONAL SHARE
dc.subjectREGIONAL EDUCATIONAL MOBILITY TRENDS
dc.subjectDECOMPOSITION
dc.subjectDEMOGRAPHIC AND HEALTH SURVEYS (DHS)
dc.titleGrowing Up Togetheren
dc.title.subtitleSibling Correlation, Parental Influence, and Intergenerational Educational Mobility in Developing Countriesen
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dc.typeDocument de travailfr
dc.typeDocumento de trabajoes
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okr.date.disclosure2023-01-25
okr.date.lastmodified2023-01-25T00:00:00Zen
okr.doctypeWorking Papers
okr.doctypeWorking Papers::Policy Research Working Papers
okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099936501252316138/IDU0627246cd0f71204b130b3130f57c07720601
okr.guid099936501252316138
okr.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-10285
okr.identifier.externaldocumentumIDU-627246cd-f712-4b13-b313-f57c07720601
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum33986889
okr.identifier.reportWPS10285
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okr.pdfurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099936501252316138/pdf/IDU0627246cd0f71204b130b3130f57c07720601.pdfen
okr.topicEducation::Access & Equity in Basic Education
okr.topicEducation::Educational Policy and Planning
okr.topicEducation::Educational Populations
okr.topicSocial Development::Children and Youth
okr.topicSocial Development::Social Analysis
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