Does Improved Local Supply of Schooling Enhance Intergenerational Mobility in Education? : Evidence from Jordan
The impact of the growth of the local supply of public schools in the post-Colonial period on intergenerational mobility in education is a first-order question in the Arab World. This question is examined in Jordan using a unique dataset that links...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2016
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/09/26791196/improved-local-supply-schooling-enhance-intergenerational-mobility-education-evidence-jordan http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25136 |
| Summary: | The impact of the growth of the local
supply of public schools in the post-Colonial period on
intergenerational mobility in education is a first-order
question in the Arab World. This question is examined in
Jordan using a unique dataset that links individual data on
own schooling and parents' schooling for adults, from a
household survey, with the supply of schools in the
subdistrict of birth at the time the individual was of age
to enroll, from a school census. The identification strategy
exploits the variation in the supply of basic and secondary
public schools across cohorts and subdistricts of birth in
Jordan, controlling for year and subdistrict-of-birth fixed
effects and interactions of governorate and year-of-birth
fixed effects. The findings show that the local availability
of basic public schools does, in fact, increase
intergenerational mobility in education. For instance, a one
standard deviation increase in the supply of basic public
schools per 1,000 people reduces the father-son and
mother-son associations of schooling by 18-20 percent and
the father-daughter and mother-daughter associations by
33-44 percent. However, an increase in the local supply of
secondary public schools does not seem to have an effect on
the intergenerational mobility in education. |
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