Occupational dualism and intergenerational educational mobility in the rural economy: evidence from China and India

Shahe Emran, M., Ferreira, Francisco ORCID: 0000-0001-8926-0500, Jiang, Yajing and Sun, Yan (2023) Occupational dualism and intergenerational educational mobility in the rural economy: evidence from China and India. Journal of Economic Inequality, 21 (3). 743 - 773. ISSN 1569-1721

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Abstract

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.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	https://link.springer.com/journal/10888
Additional Information:	© 2023 The Author(s)
Divisions:	International Inequalities Institute
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory J Political Science
JEL classification:	O - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth > O1 - Economic Development > O12 - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J6 - Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies > J62 - Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility
Date Deposited:	16 Oct 2023 16:57
Last Modified:	14 Feb 2024 16:09
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/120490

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