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Intergenerational Mobility in Chile: A Year-to-Year Analysis of a National Cohort of Students

In: Opportunity, Mobility and Inequality

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  • Francisco Meneses
  • Kenzo Asahi

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What are the factors that affect social mobility? How are early adulthood educational and labour trajectories correlated with intergenerational mobility? This chapter presents three contributions to the intergenerational mobility literature. First, this chapter develops one of the first attempts to measure intergenerational mobility using administrative panel data sets in a developing country. A panel data set was created using a national educational test and surveys and follows students, starting in 8th grade, and analyzes their intergenerational income mobility in their late twenties. Second, this chapter uses social class and role model proxies and shows that college educational outcomes are related to initial social and educational environments. Third, a detailed analysis of academic and labour market trajectories is used, indicating that students with irregular educational and labour market trajectories show lower intergenerational income mobility. The results of this research open a new approach for analyzing life decisions and expect to provide further guidance for public policies that intend to promote social mobility among low-income individuals.

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  • Francisco Meneses & Kenzo Asahi, 2025. "Intergenerational Mobility in Chile: A Year-to-Year Analysis of a National Cohort of Students," Research on Economic Inequality, in: Opportunity, Mobility and Inequality, volume 31, pages 5-40, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
    • Handle: RePEc:eme:reinzz:s1049-258520250000031002
    DOI: 10.1108/S1049-258520250000031002
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