Does Poverty Matter or Inequality? An International Comparative Analysis on the Intergenerational Education Persistence

How Robust are Country Rankings in Educational Mobility?

“…Overlaid are point estimates from who find regression coefficients of 0.37 looking at fathers and 0.42 looking at both parents, Hertz et al (2008) who puts the regression coefficient at 0.49, and from Liu and Ding (2020) who found estimates of 0.20 for mothers only, and 0.23 for fathers only. Our distribution has two clusters around 0.25 and 0.37, which corresponds quite well to paternal estimates by Liu and Ding (2020) and . The average point estimate in our analyses lies around 0.33, and while that does not correspond to any previous estimate, they all fall within the multiverse distribution, which would point to the analysis capturing the analytical choices of previous estimates quite well.…”

“…What, then does the previous literature say about country rankings in educational mobility? Such rankings can be found for 17 countries in Chevalier et al (2009), 19 countries in Pfeffer (2008), 20 countries in Liu and Ding (2020), 42 countries in Hertz et al (2008), and 185 countries in Narayan et al (2018). These studies tend to find that mobility is higher in economically equal countries such as the Nordic welfare states.…”

“…For example, while Nordic countries are usually at the more mobile end, Sweden places firmly in the middle of the distribution in Hertz et al (2008), and Norway emerges as one of the least mobile countries in Pfeffer (2008). Germany is another country that can be found on opposite ends of the scale: highly immobile in Pfeffer (2008) but among the most mobile in Liu and Ding (2020).…”

“…in these differences. used register data, of higher quality than for a survey such as the ESS, while Hertz et al (2008) and Liu and Ding (2020) also use survey data.…”

“…6 Examples to the contrary are Norway in Pfeffer (2008), and Sweden in one out of four rankings in Liu and Ding (2020).…”