When Measure Matters : Coresidency, Truncation Bias, and Intergenerational Mobility in Developing Countries
Biases from truncation caused by coresidency restriction have been a challenge for research on intergenerational mobility. Estimates of intergenerational schooling persistence from two data sets show that the intergenerational regression coefficien...
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| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2016
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/03/26089269/measure-matters-coresidency-truncation-bias-intergenerational-mobility-developing-countries http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24150 |
| Summary: | Biases from truncation caused by
coresidency restriction have been a challenge for research
on intergenerational mobility. Estimates of
intergenerational schooling persistence from two data sets
show that the intergenerational regression coefficient, the
most widely used measure, is severely biased downward in
coresident samples. But the bias in intergenerational
correlation is much smaller, and is less sensitive to the
coresidency rate. The paper provides explanations for these
results. Comparison of intergenerational mobility based on
the intergenerational regression coefficient across
countries, gender, and over time can be misleading. Much
progress on intergenerational mobility in developing
countries can be made with the available data by focusing on
intergenerational correlation. |
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