Intergenerational Mobility

Using surnames, we show that colonial-era hierarchies continue to shape access to Colombia’s best schools and elite social networks, limiting intergenerational mobility through both education and marriage.

Evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean suggests that skin tone is a powerful predictor of intergenerational mobility.

As countries in Sub-Saharan Africa debate the costs and benefits of subsidising secondary education, a 15-year RCT in Ghana finds large multi-generation impacts.

Enterprise growth for small businesses in India led to schooling gains for children of literate parents but schooling losses for children of illiterate parents, lowering relative intergenerational mobility

Which African countries have the best, and worst, intergenerational mobility?