Social mobility and economic development: evidence from a panel of Latin American regions

We explore the role of social mobility as a driver of economic development by constructing a panel data set that includes measures of intergenerational mobility of education at the sub-national level in Latin America. First, we map the geography of educational mobility for 52 Latin American regions,...

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Autores principales: Neidhöfer, Guido, Ciaschi, Matías, Gasparini, Leonardo Carlos, Serrano, Joaquín
Formato: Articulo Documento de trabajo
Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: 2021
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Ciencias Económicas
Intergenerational mobility
Equality of opportunity
Development
Growth
Latin America
Acceso en línea:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/124140
https://www.cedlas.econo.unlp.edu.ar/wp/no-286/
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topic Ciencias Económicas
Intergenerational mobility
Equality of opportunity
Development
Growth
Latin America
spellingShingle Ciencias Económicas
Intergenerational mobility
Equality of opportunity
Development
Growth
Latin America
Neidhöfer, Guido
Ciaschi, Matías
Gasparini, Leonardo Carlos
Serrano, Joaquín
Social mobility and economic development: evidence from a panel of Latin American regions
topic_facet Ciencias Económicas
Intergenerational mobility
Equality of opportunity
Development
Growth
Latin America
description We explore the role of social mobility as a driver of economic development by constructing a panel data set that includes measures of intergenerational mobility of education at the sub-national level in Latin America. First, we map the geography of educational mobility for 52 Latin American regions, as well as its evolution over time. Then, through a novel weighting procedure that considers the participation of cohorts to the economy in each year, we estimate the effect of changes in mobility on economic indicators, such as income per capita, poverty, child mortality, and luminosity. Hereby, we control for several covariates, including migration, educational expansions, initial conditions, and unobserved cross-regional heterogeneity. Our findings show that increasing social mobility had a significant and robust impact on the development of Latin American regions.
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Documento de trabajo
author Neidhöfer, Guido
Ciaschi, Matías
Gasparini, Leonardo Carlos
Serrano, Joaquín
author_facet Neidhöfer, Guido
Ciaschi, Matías
Gasparini, Leonardo Carlos
Serrano, Joaquín
author_sort Neidhöfer, Guido
title Social mobility and economic development: evidence from a panel of Latin American regions
title_short Social mobility and economic development: evidence from a panel of Latin American regions
title_full Social mobility and economic development: evidence from a panel of Latin American regions
title_fullStr Social mobility and economic development: evidence from a panel of Latin American regions
title_full_unstemmed Social mobility and economic development: evidence from a panel of Latin American regions
title_sort social mobility and economic development: evidence from a panel of latin american regions
publishDate 2021
url http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/124140
https://www.cedlas.econo.unlp.edu.ar/wp/no-286/
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