The regional geography of social mobility in Mexico

Shades of social mobility: Colorism, ethnic origin and intergenerational social mobility

“…A robust finding of the literature on intergenerational economic mobility in Mexico is that the country presents a large degree of intergenerational persistence irrespective of the economic outcome measured (Vélez-Grajales and Monroy-Gómez-Franco, 2017;Campos-Vázquez, Delgado-Barrera and Vélez-Grajales, 2020). Similarly, recent work has found heterogeneity at the regional (Monroy-Gómez-Franco and Corak, 2019;Delajara, Campos-Vazquez and Velez-Grajales, 2022) and skin color (Campos-Vázquez and Medina-Cortina, 2019; dimensions. However, it has not analyzed the patterns of social mobility experienced by the indigenous population, which, based on the literature mentioned in the previous paragraph, can be expected to be different from those of the general population.…”

“…Pooling together both surveys allows obtaining a large sample size to study the differences in the patterns of intergenerational economic mobility between Mexico's indigenous and non-indigenous populations. It is worth mentioning that Delajara, Campos-Vazquez and Velez-Grajales (2022) previously used this pooled sample to estimate intergenerational social mobility patterns at the state level.…”

“…An alternative is to employ Principal Components Analysis (PCA) as a data reduction technique, as done by(Campos-Vázquez and Medina-Cortina, 2019;Torche, 2015;Delajara, Campos-Vazquez and Velez-Grajales, 2022). However, PCA requires the presence of a continuous variable among the variables used to construct the index, which is not my case.…”

México: bienestar subjetivo y movilidad social

“…En virtud de que no se cuenta con información a nivel estatal, y que la que existe no responde cabalmente a la definición propuesta ni al año de estudio, se ha decidido omitir esta variable y operar únicamente con la movilidad absoluta. En un estudio reciente -y muy interesante- Delajara et al (2022) han estimado la movilidad relativa para cada entidad federativa como complemento de la "persistencia": la proporción de adultos que permanecen en los cuartiles más bajo o más alto, cuando sus padres pertenecían a estos cuartiles, respectivamente. De esta forma, la "no persistencia" implica movilidad relativa: ascendente, en caso de que el referente sea el cuartil más bajo; descendente, si es el más alto.…”

The potential effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on learnings

“…A significant determinant of this structural pattern is the heightened role of private resources of origin determining the economic trajectory of a person, which arises from the low effectiveness of public systems to support the socioeconomic achievement of the majority of the Mexican population. Moreover, Mexico is a country with significant spatial disparities, where there is a substantial degree of regional heterogeneity in terms of both social mobility and inequality of opportunity ( Delajara et al, 2021 , Neidhöfer et al, 2021 ). Thus, it is likely that the displacement to distance learning increased these inequalities and compounds these already significant regional differences.…”