Intergenerational Mobility under Private vs. Public Education*

Davies, James; Zhang, Jie; Zeng, Jinli

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9442.2005.00415.x

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“…Solon (1999) theoretical model reveals that a more progressive public investment in human capital tends to increase mobility. Another theoretical model by Davies, Zhang and Zeng (2004) affirms that "starting from the same inequality, mobility is higher under public than under private education". However, an empirical study of Britain by Blanden, Gregg and Machin (2005) found that "the big expansion in university participation has http://dx.doi.org/10.15405/epsbs.2016.08.123 eISSN: 2357-1330 in two ways, combining extensive descriptive analysis of progress in educational attainment with a more formal evaluation of intergenerational social mobility using indices constructed by Dahan and Gaviria (2001) and Behrman, Birdsall and Szekely (1998).…”

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Factors that Influence Social-Economic Mobility in the Northern Region of Malaysia

Mat

Zainal²,

Harun³

2016

European Proceedings of Social &Amp; Behavioural Sciences

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Colleting the data through a survey in the Northern region of Malaysia; Kedah, Perlis, Penang and Perak, this study investigates intergenerational social mobility in Malaysia. We measure and analysed the factors that influence social-economic mobility in Malaysia. In estimating the factors that influence social-economic mobility, we employ a binary choice model based on the maximum likelihood method. The social mobility variable is measured using the difference between the educational achievement between a father and his son. If there is a change of at least of two educational levels between a father and his son, then this study will assign the value one (1) which means that social mobility has occurred. We found that besides father's education, father's attitude and the establishment of a university in the area have also contributed to social mobility of the rural communities.

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Factors that Influence Social-Economic Mobility in the Northern Region of Malaysia

Mat

Zainal²,

Harun³

2016

European Proceedings of Social &Amp; Behavioural Sciences

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“…27 Notice that the regional ranking by social mobility broadly coincides with the rankings according to inequality. Although, of course, the two concepts are different and can move in the opposite directions, it has been suggested that they are unlikely to do so (Davies et al 2005). …”

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Where in the World are You? Assessing the Importance of Circumstance and Effort in a World of Different Mean Country Incomes and (Almost) No Migration

Milanović

2007

SSRN Journal

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“…However, differently from them, we include random ability, while neglecting kids' effort in the process of formation of human capital. Similar, more recent, contributions include Bénabou (1996), Fernández and Rogerson (1998), Davies, Zhang and Zeng (2005. 7 the parent (see Bowles and Gintis 2002, Sacerdote 2002, Plug and Vijverberg 2003, and references therein), which implies that p lies in some range of (0.5, 1).…”

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Redistribution or Education? The Political Economy of the Social Race

Bernasconi

Profeta

2007

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. An electronic version of the paper may be downloaded Terms of use: Documents in EconStor may• from the SSRN website:www. SSRN.com • from the RePEc website:www.RePEc.org• from the CESifo website:T www. CESifo-group.deT CESifo Working Paper No. 1934 REDISTRIBUTION OR EDUCATION? THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE SOCIAL RACE AbstractIn an overlapping generations model with two social classes, rich and poor, parents of the different social classes vote on two issues: redistributive policies for them and education investments for their kids. Public education is the engine for growth through its effect on human capital; but it is also the vehicle through which kids born from poor families may exchange their positions with kids born from rich families. This is because education reduces the probability of the mismatch, i.e. individuals with low talent but coming from rich families being placed in jobs which should be reserved to people with high talent (and vice-versa). We find a political economy equilibrium of the voting game using probabilistic voting. When the poor are more politically influent, the economy is characterized by a higher level of education, growth and social mobility than under political regimes supported by the rich; pretax inequality is greater in the first case, but post-tax is lower.JEL Code: J62, J24, H10.Keywords: social mobility, talents' mismatch, probabilistic voting. "... For if the son of a golden or silver parent has an admixture of brass and iron, then nature orders a transposition of ranks, and the eye of the ruler must not be pitiful towards the child because he has to descend the scale and become a husbandman or artisan, just as there may be sons of artisans who having an admixture of gold or silver in them are raised to honour, and become guardians or auxiliaries. For an oracle says that when a man of brass or iron guards the State, it will be destroyed" [Plato, 414 D, circa IntroductionIn a social race individuals of different social classes compete to improve their economic positions. The outcome of this competition depends on individual talent, individual and family behavior, and on public policies. This paper analyzes the effects of two public transfer programs, redistribution and education, on the outcome of a social race between two social classes, the rich and the poor. In an intergenerational setting we explore the economic motivations and the political process leading parents to choose redistributive policies fo...

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Intergenerational Mobility under Private vs. Public Education*

Cited by 55 publications

References 30 publications

Factors that Influence Social-Economic Mobility in the Northern Region of Malaysia

Factors that Influence Social-Economic Mobility in the Northern Region of Malaysia

Where in the World are You? Assessing the Importance of Circumstance and Effort in a World of Different Mean Country Incomes and (Almost) No Migration

Redistribution or Education? The Political Economy of the Social Race

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