The One-Child Policy Amplifies Economic Inequality Across Generations in China

Yu, Yewen; Fan, Yi; Yi, Junjian

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“…Their findings suggest that the availability of public primary schools weakens the intergenerational linkages, especially for daughters. Zou (2018) and Yu et al (2020) estimate the effects of the one-child policy on intergenerational educational and income mobility in China. Alesina et al (2019) analyse the relative roles of 'regional exposure' and 'spatial sorting' in absolute educational mobility in 27 African countries.…”

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Economic Approach to Intergenerational Mobility

Emran¹,

Shilpi²

2021

Social Mobility in Developing Countries

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This chapter provides an analytical survey and synthesis of economic literature on intergenerational mobility in developing countries, with a focus on data and methodological challenges. Sample truncation from co-residency and measurement error cause substantial downward bias in intergenerational regression coefficient, whereas intergenerational correlation and intergenerational rank correlation are more robust to such data limitations. To understand heterogeneity, reliable estimates of both the intercept and the slope are necessary. The OLS estimate of the intercept is biased upward, but less so in the rank–rank regression. Sibling correlation is a broader measure of mobility, especially convenient with limited data. Estimating intergenerational causal effects is challenging as it requires long panel data. A promising alternative is to focus on the causal effects of policies on measurement of relative and absolute mobility, without disentangling the role of genetic inheritance.

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Section: The Implications Of Sample Truncation Due To Co-residencymentioning

confidence: 99%

Economic Approach to Intergenerational Mobility

Emran¹,

Shilpi²

2021

Social Mobility in Developing Countries

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“…Their findings suggest that the availability of public primary schools weakens the intergenerational linkages, especially for daughters. Zou (2018) and Yu et al (2020) estimate the effects of the one-child policy on intergenerational educational and income mobility in China. analyse the relative roles of 'regional exposure' and 'spatial sorting' in absolute educational mobility in 27 African countries.…”

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Social Mobility in Developing Countries

2021

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Social mobility is the hope of economic development and the mantra of a good society. There are disagreements about what constitutes social mobility, but there is broad agreement that people should have roughly equal chances of success regardless of their economic status at birth. Concerns about rising inequality have engendered a renewed interest in social mobility—especially in the developing world. However, efforts to construct the databases and meet the standards required for conventional analyses of social mobility are at a preliminary stage and need to be complemented by innovative, conceptual, and methodological advances. If forms of mobility have slowed in the West, then we might be entering an age of rigid stratification with defined boundaries between the always-haves and the never-haves—which does not augur well for social stability. Social mobility research is ongoing, with substantive findings in different disciplines—typically with researchers in isolation from each other. A key contribution of this book is the pulling together of the emerging streams of knowledge. Generating policy-relevant knowledge is a principal concern. Three basic questions frame the study of diverse aspects of social mobility in the book. How to assess the extent of social mobility in a given development context when the datasets by conventional measurement techniques are unavailable? How to identify drivers and inhibitors of social mobility in particular developing country contexts? How to acquire the knowledge required to design interventions to raise social mobility, either by increasing upward mobility or by lowering downward mobility?

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The One-Child Policy Amplifies Economic Inequality Across Generations in China

Cited by 2 publications

References 8 publications

Economic Approach to Intergenerational Mobility

Economic Approach to Intergenerational Mobility

Social Mobility in Developing Countries

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