Abstract
We characterize intergenerational mobility in Germany using census data on educational attainment and parental income for 526,000 children. Our measure of educational attainment is the A-Level degree, a requirement for access to university. A 10 percentile increase in the parental income rank is associated with a 5.2 percentage point increase in the A-Level share. This parental income gradient has not changed for the birth cohorts of 1980-1996, despite a large-scale policy of expanding upper secondary education. At the regional level, there exists substantialvariation in mobility estimates. Place effects, rather than sorting of households, account for most of these differences
Item Type: | Paper |
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Keywords: | Intergenerational Mobility, Educational Attainment, Local Labor Markets |
Faculties: | Economics > Collaborative Research Center Transregio "Rationality and Competition" |
Subjects: | 300 Social sciences > 330 Economics |
JEL Classification: | I24, J62, R23 |
URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-epub-77871-8 |
Language: | English |
Item ID: | 77871 |
Date Deposited: | 16. Nov 2021, 15:01 |
Last Modified: | 22. Nov 2021, 09:36 |