Like Father, Like Son? Intergenerational Education Mobility in India

This paper employs a novel strategy to create a unique father-son matched data that is representative of the entire adult male population in India. Using this father-son matched data, the paper studies the extent of inter-generational mobility in educational attainment in India since 1940s and provide an estimate of how India ranks among other nations. The authors also document this mobility across social groups, and states in India. Finally, they investigate the evolution of mobility in educational attainment across the two generations and whether this trend differs across social groups and state boundaries. [Discussion Paper No. 6549] URL: [http://ftp.iza.org/dp6549.pdf]