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RNIM (Research Network on Intergenerational Mobility) @rnim-seminar.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

𝗩𝗶𝗯𝗵𝘂 𝗣𝗿𝗮𝘁𝘆𝘂𝘀𝗵 (UBC) will present his paper on 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟵, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲. #EconSky #SocSky Join Us! Title: 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗢𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆? 𝗗𝗲𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝗺𝗺𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗥𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮 Time: 𝟭𝟬 𝗔𝗠 𝗘𝗦𝗧 ||𝟰 𝗣𝗠 𝗖𝗘𝗧 || 𝟭𝟭 𝗣𝗠 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗮 Registration: 👉 tinyurl.com/ekdw93ma (All participants must re-register) 👇Abstract:

We examine how land ownership shapes educational mobility in rural India. Using full-count rural census microdata, we document a robust step-function pattern across the land distribution: educational mobility rises sharply from the landless to marginal landholders and then plateaus. Exploiting historical variation in British-era land-tenure regimes, we demonstrate a causal link between higher landlessness and lower educational mobility. To unpack mechanisms, we develop a model where parents allocate children’s time between school and work under a subsistence constraint. With little or no land, the constraint binds, increasing child labour and suppressing schooling; a small rise in land relaxes it, producing a sharp drop in child labour and a jump in schooling and upward mobility. The framework endogenously generates the step-function, matches the core facts, rationalizes heterogeneities, and yields testable predictions that we validate.

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