Intergenerational education mobility of black and white South Africans

Nimubona, Alain-Désiré; Vencatachellum, Désiré

doi:10.1007/s00148-006-0120-9

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“…Early contributions in the South African literature include Thomas (1996), Case and Deaton (1999) and Lam (1999) who presented evidence of educational persistence across generations, particularly among blacks. This result is also confirmed by more recent studies such as Nimubona and Vencatachellum (2007) and Girdwood and Leibbrandt (2009) suggesting that parental education is still relevant in determining children's educational outcomes. Evidence on the link between parental and child education by gender is mixed.…”

Section: The Education System and Previous Studies In South Africasupporting

confidence: 81%

“…The subsequent Education and Training Act (1980) did not significantly change the inequities. For instance, in 1989 expenditure on blacks was four times less than that on whites (Nimubona & Vencatachellum, 2007).…”

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confidence: 96%

“…Several studies have examined intergenerational transmission of education in South Africa (Burns & Keswell, 2012;Case & Deaton, 1999;Girdwood & Leibbrandt, 2009;Hertz et al, 2007;Lam, 1999;Louw et al, 2006;Nimubona & Vencatachellum, 2007). Their research thrust has mainly been at a particular point in time; snapshot view.…”

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Temporal developments in intergenerational transmission of education: Case for black South Africans

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2015

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Temporal developments in intergenerational transmission of education: Case for black South Africans

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Gwatidzo

2015

Research in Social Stratification and Mobility

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“…Hertz et al (2007) examine the intergenerational transmission of education for 42 countries. Nimubona and Vencatachellum (2007) investigate the intergenerational educational mobility in South Africa and review the literature on educational correlations. They find that the cross section estimates of black intergenerational education mobility do not differ from those obtained by using pseudo-panel data, which control for unobserved community effects.…”

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Intergenerational Educational Mobility in Turkey

Tansel

2015

SSRN Journal

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This paper aims to provide information on intergenerational educational mobility in Turkey over the last century (at least ovet the last 65 years). This is the first study explicitly on providing the association between parents' and children's education in Turkey over time unlike the previous studies of one point in time. Given the absence of longitudinal data, we make use of a unique data set on educational outcomes based on children recall of parental education. The data used is the result of Adult Education Survey of 2007. Several findings emerge from the analysis. First of all, children's and parents' educational outcomes are correlated. The intergenerational educational coefficient of the mothers is somewhat larger than that of the fathers. The intergenerational educational coefficients of both the mothers and the fathers decrease over the cohorts implying that intergenerational educational mobility increased significantly for the younger generations of children in Turkey. The chances of attaining a university degree for the children increases as fathers' completed schooling level increases. Men's chances of attaining high school or university education are substantially higher than that of women's. The association between parent and child education is stronger when parent educational background is poor. The results imply that the policy makes should focus on children with poor parental educational background and on women. *This paper is written during my visit at

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“…Our analysis focuses on intergenerational schooling persistence, as education has been the main indicator of economic status in most of the recent research on intergenerational mobility in developing countries (Azam and Bhatt (2015), Emran and Shilpi (2015), Maitra and Sharma (2010), Jalan andMurgai (2008), Hertz et al (2007), Nimubona, A, and D. Vecatachellum (2007), Behrman et al (2001), Thomas (1996)). The focus on educational mobility is appropriate for at least two reasons.…”

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Estimating Intergenerational Mobility with Incomplete Data: Coresidency and Truncation Bias in Rank-Based Relative and Absolute Mobility Measures

Emran

Shilpi

2017

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Most of the household surveys available in developing countries suffer from sample truncation because coresidency is used to define household membership. This paper provides evidence on truncation bias in rank-based relative and absolute mobility estimates in coresident samples, and compares with the bias in intergenerational regression coefficient (IGRC) and intergenerational correlation (IGC). Using surveys from Bangladesh and India that include non-resident children, we find that the slope estimates are biased downward, while the intercept estimates are biased upward, but expected years of schooling conditional on parental education are overestimated in coresident samples. The downward bias in rank correlation is much smaller than that in IGRC, and comparable to that in IGC. The upward bias in the intercept is the largest in the regression used for IGC. Truncation bias in rank-based absolute mobility estimates is the lowest in most cases. The results add to an emerging body of evidence that the rank-based measures are more robust than the widely-used IGRC and IGC in estimating intergenerational mobility with incomplete data.

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Intergenerational education mobility of black and white South Africans

Abstract: Education, Intergenerational mobility, South Africa, I21, J24,

Cited by 41 publications

References 39 publications

Temporal developments in intergenerational transmission of education: Case for black South Africans

Temporal developments in intergenerational transmission of education: Case for black South Africans

Intergenerational Educational Mobility in Turkey

Estimating Intergenerational Mobility with Incomplete Data: Coresidency and Truncation Bias in Rank-Based Relative and Absolute Mobility Measures

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