Occupational dualism and intergenerational educational mobility in the rural economy

Evidence from China and India

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12837232
AutoresM Shahe Emran (0000-0002-4375-0958, Columbia University), Francisco H G Ferreira (0000-0001-8926-0500, London School of Economics and Political Science, autor de correspondencia), Yajing Jiang (Charles River Associates), Yan Sun (0000-0001-7588-8444, World Bank)
Año2023
Volumen21
Número3
Páginas743-773
Fecha de publicación2023-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Journal of Economic Inequality (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1569-1721 • E-ISSN: 1573-8701
EditorialSpringer Science+Business Media (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1007/s10888-023-09599-1
OpenAlexW3150461693
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas52

We extend the Becker-Tomes model to a rural economy with farm-nonfarm occupational dualism to study intergenerational educational mobility in rural China and India. Using data free of coresidency bias, we find that fathers’ nonfarm occupation and education were complementary in determining sons schooling in India, but separable in China. Sons faced lower mobility in India irrespective of fathers’ occupation. Sensitivity analysis using the Altonji et al. (J. Polit. Econ. 113 (1), 151–84, 2005) approach suggests that genetic correlations alone could explain the intergenerational persistence in China, but not in India. Farm-nonfarm differences in returns to education, and geographic mobility are plausible mechanisms behind the contrasting cross-country evidence

Agriculture · China · Demographic economics · Dualism · Economics · Geography · Labour economics · Nonfarm payrolls · Occupational mobility · Rural economy · Social mobility · Social science · Sociology · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies