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Magical transition ? intergenerational educational and occupational mobility in rural China : 1988?2002

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  • Emran,Shahe
  • Sun,Yan - EAPCE

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This paper presents evidence on intergenerational educational and occupational mobility in rural China over a period of 14 years (1988?2002). To understand whether the estimated inter-generational persistence can be driven solely by unobserved heterogeneity, biprobit sensitivity analysis and heteroskedasticity-based identification are implemented. The empirical results show that there have been dramatic improvements in occupational mobility from agriculture to nonfarm occupations; a farmer?s children are not any more likely to become farmers in 2002, although there was significant persistence in occupation choices in 1988. In contrast, the intergenerational mobility in educational attainment has remained largely unchanged for daughters, and it has deteriorated significantly for sons. There is strong evidence of a causal effect of parental education on a son?s schooling in 2002. The paper provides some possible explanations for the dramatic divergence between occupational and educational mobility in rural China from 1988 to 2002.

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  • Emran,Shahe & Sun,Yan - EAPCE, 2015. "Magical transition ? intergenerational educational and occupational mobility in rural China : 1988?2002," Policy Research Working Paper Series 7316, The World Bank.
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    1. Meng, Xin & Zhao, Guochang, 2021. "The long shadow of a large scale education interruption: The intergenerational effect," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 71(C).
    2. Poulomi Roy & Rilina Basu & Shishir Roy, 2022. "A Socio Economic Perspective of Intergenerational Educational Mobility: Experience in West Bengal," Journal of Quantitative Economics, Springer;The Indian Econometric Society (TIES), vol. 20(4), pages 903-929, December.

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    Education For All; Education and Society; Effective Schools and Teachers; Access&Equity in Basic Education; Primary Education;
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