Recipient of the Arrow Prize for Junior Economists

A BEJEAP Advances article.

Abstract

This paper estimates 50-year trends in the intergenerational persistence of educational attainment for a sample of 42 nations around the globe. Large regional differences in educational persistence are documented, with Latin America displaying the highest intergenerational correlations, and the Nordic countries the lowest. We also demonstrate that the global average correlation between parent and child's schooling has held steady at about 0.4 for the past fifty years.

Submitted: March 29, 2007 · Accepted: November 8, 2007 · Published: January 30, 2008

Recommended Citation

Hertz, Tom; Jayasundera, Tamara; Piraino, Patrizio; Selcuk, Sibel; Smith, Nicole; and Verashchagina, Alina (2007) "The Inheritance of Educational Inequality: International Comparisons and Fifty-Year Trends," The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy: Vol. 7 : Iss. 2 (Advances), Article 10.
DOI: 10.2202/1935-1682.1775
Available at: http://www.bepress.com/bejeap/vol7/iss2/art10

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Inheritance_of_Educational_Inequality.zip (1391 kB)
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