The Evolution of Intergenerational Educational Mobility in Turkey

Intergenerational Mobility in Turkey Based on Education

“…According to the results, M 1 calculated as 0.59, these findings indicate lower mobility estimation with respect to Bakış's (2017) estimation of 0.8 based on the European Social Survey dataset. Daughters 1943Daughters -1952Daughters 1953Daughters -1962Daughters 1963Daughters -1972Daughters 1973Daughters -1982Daughters 1983Daughters -1991 M Another similar result to previous studies (Bakış, 2017;Tansel, 2015;Öztunalı & Torul, 2020), there is a gender differential in intergenerational educational mobility. Male descendants have higher educational prospects with respect to females.…”

“…The econometric specification with the OLS methodology of previous intergenerational educational mobility literature (such as Tansel, 2015, Aydemir & Yazıcı, 2019, adapted directly from the income mobility literature, is based on strong modeling assumptions such as linearity, symmetry, cardinality, and monotony in the relationship between the years of education of children and their parents, moreover, it necessitates information provided as years of schooling continuously. These constraints implicitly assume that a year in higher education, a freshman year, or a year of non-graduation has the same marginal effects as other years of education, contrasting the well-known sheepskin effect in education (Öztunalı & Torul, 2019). Since AES provided education information as a categorical variable, using the conventional methodology of the income mobility literature is infeasible for this study.…”

“…In the second part of the empirical analysis, similar to Öztunalı and Torul (2019), we employed ordered logit regressions to estimate the conditional educational intergenerational transition probabilities and persistence for each birth cohort. The econometric specification with the OLS methodology of previous intergenerational educational mobility literature (such as Tansel, 2015, Aydemir & Yazıcı, 2019, adapted directly from the income mobility literature, is based on strong modeling assumptions such as linearity, symmetry, cardinality, and monotony in the relationship between the years of education of children and their parents, moreover, it necessitates information provided as years of schooling continuously.…”

“…The authors also find a negative and significant relationship between the degree of intergenerational mobility and the educational inequality of parents across regions. Öztunalı and Torul (2019), in addition to the evolution of intergenerational educational persistence across generations, analyze the relationship between within-cohort educational inequality and intergenerational educational mobility, by using the wave 2011 of Survey of Income and Living Conditions dataset of TURKSTAT. Their findings indicate that intergenerational educational persistence decreases, and educational inequality decreases over younger birth cohorts, which implies it is accurate to show a time series analog of the Great Gatsby Curve relationship between inequality and mobility.…”

Ordinal Variables and the Measurement of Upward and Downward Intergenerational Educational Mobility in European Countries

“…the 2008–2014 period), is on the impact of this mobility on the subjective wellbeing of young adults. Using waves 1–7 of the ESS, Torul and Oztunali (2017) investigate the empirical evolution of intergenerational educational mobility in Europe. They show that intergenerational educational persistence is very heterogeneous both in level and in trend, across countries and country groups (i.e.…”