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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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RNIM (Research Network on Intergenerational Mobility) @rnim-seminar.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

𝗟𝗼𝘂𝗶𝘀 𝗦𝗶𝗿𝘂𝗴𝘂𝗲 (LSE) will present his paper on 𝗠𝗮𝘆 𝟭𝟯, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲. #EconSky #SocSky #AcademicSky Join Us! Title: 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱: 𝗔 𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗮-𝗔𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘆𝘀𝗶𝘀 Time : 𝟭𝟬 𝗔𝗠 𝗘𝗦𝗧 ||𝟰 𝗣𝗠 𝗖𝗘𝗧 || 𝟭𝟭 𝗣𝗠 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗮 Registration: 👉 tinyurl.com/ekdw93ma 👇Abstract:

Intergenerational income persistence is commonly measured as the degree of association between the lifetime income of individuals and that of their parents. Over the last decade, a growing literature has provided national estimates of intergenerational income persistence for a wide range of countries. At the same time, evidence has shown that these estimates are highly sensitive to methodological choices, such as the number of years over which income is averaged, the age at which it is measured, or the set of variables used to predict parental income when it is unobserved. In most cases, data constraints prevent researchers from adopting best practices, limiting comparability across studies. This study systematically compiles national estimates of intergenerational persistence from the literature together with detailed information on their estimation settings. Cross-study variation in these parameters is used to provide a joint assessment of the impact of estimation settings on persistence estimates. Building on these results, national measures are adjusted for methodological differences to provide as consistent a depiction of the variation in intergenerational mobility across countries as possible.

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RNIM (Research Network on Intergenerational Mobility) @rnim-seminar.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

𝗠. 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗺𝗿𝗮𝗻 (IPD, Columbia U) will present his paper on 𝗔𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗹 𝟭𝟳, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲. #EconSky #SocSky #AcademicSky Join Us! Title: 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗥𝗮𝗻𝗸𝘀 𝗙𝗮𝗶𝗹: 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗘𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 Time : 𝟭𝟬 𝗔𝗠 𝗘𝗦𝗧 ||𝟰 𝗣𝗠 𝗖𝗘𝗧 || 𝟭𝟭 𝗣𝗠 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗮 Registration: 👉 tinyurl.com/ekdw93ma 👇Abstract:

Many recent studies on intergenerational educational mobility adopted the rank-rank model popularized by the work of Chetty et al. (2014, QJE) on income mobility, under the assumption that the approach remains valid for discrete variables. However, conversion of discrete data, such as years of schooling, into percentile ranks fails to make the empirical rank distribution uniform, unlike continuous variables such as income. Thus, the estimates of relative educational mobility from rank-rank regressions are not margin-free, and capture a fundamentally different concept of mobility compared to the rank-rank slope in income mobility analysis. Taking advantage of recent advances on discrete copulas, we introduce a margin-free measure of relative educational mobility, Yule’s coefficient, which is the analogue of the rank-rank slope in income mobility. Yule’s coefficient was proposed by Geenens (2020) as a summary measure of the margin-free dependence structure between two discrete variables such as children’s and parents’ schooling. The margin-free dependence structure is estimated by an iterative matrix re-scaling procedure applied to the joint probability mass function of the bivariate discrete distribution. We report estimates of Yule’s coefficient for 6 countries: the USA, Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Chile, and Mexico. The evidence suggests that, in many cases, the rank-rank slope estimates for schooling overestimate the margin-free relative educational mobility (positional mobility). For example, the estimates for the USA (PSID data) are: rank-rank slope=0.441 and Yule’s coefficient=0.534. The extent of overestimation in the national estimates varies considerably across countries: 3.09% – 48.31%. The cross-country rankings and evolution of educational mobility across cohorts are substantially different when we use the margin-free Yule’s coefficient instead of the rank-based measures.

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RNIM (Research Network on Intergenerational Mobility) @rnim-seminar.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

𝗟𝗶 𝗬𝗮𝗻𝗴 (Hong Kong University) will present his paper on 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝟭𝟲, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲. #EconSky #SocSky #AcademicSky Join Us! Title: 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗟𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗥𝗼𝗰𝗸 𝘁𝗼 𝗟𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝗚𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗨𝗽𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗠𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗛𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗞𝗼𝗻𝗴 Time : 𝟭𝟬 𝗔𝗠 𝗘𝗦𝗧 ||𝟰 𝗣𝗠 𝗖𝗘𝗧 || 𝟭𝟭 𝗣𝗠 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗮 Registration: 👉 tinyurl.com/ekdw93ma 👇Abstract:

This study provides the first comprehensive analysis of absolute intergenerational mobility (AIM) in Hong Kong, using census data spanning four decades. Employing the “copula and marginals” method, the authors document a sharp decline in AIM, from 85% for the 1976 birth cohort to 49% for the 2001 cohort, driven largely by diminished labor income mobility. The erosion stems primarily from slower economic growth rather than rising inequality; under constant economic growth, AIM would stabilize at approximately 67%, accounting for nearly all of the decline, with minimal residual from inequality or copula changes. The findings are robust across specifications, and an innovative Mincer equation–based decomposition highlights education’s critical role in mitigating declines, offering general insights into how tertiary expansion shapes mobility in transitioning economies.

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RNIM (Research Network on Intergenerational Mobility) @rnim-seminar.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

𝗞𝗷𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝗚. 𝗦𝗮𝗹𝘃𝗮𝗻𝗲𝘀 (Norwegian School of Economics) will present his paper on 𝗙𝗲𝗯𝗿𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟭𝟬, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲. #EconSky #Socsky Title: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗥𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗧𝗮𝘀𝗸𝘀, 𝗘𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 Time : 𝟭𝟬 𝗔𝗠 𝗘𝗦𝗧 ||𝟰 𝗣𝗠 𝗖𝗘𝗧 || 𝟭𝟭 𝗣𝗠 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗮 Registration: 👉 tinyurl.com/ekdw93ma 👇Abstract:

How does a large structural change to the labor market affect education investments made at young ages? Exploiting differential exposure to the national decline in routine-task intensity across local labor markets, we show that the secular decline in routine tasks causes major shifts in education investments of high school students, where they invest less in vocational-trades education and increasingly invest in college education. Our results highlight that labor demand changes impact inequality in the next generation. Low-ability and low-SES students are most responsive to task-biased demand changes and, as a result, intergenerational mobility in college education increases.

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RNIM (Research Network on Intergenerational Mobility) @rnim-seminar.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

𝗔𝗻𝘁𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗼 𝗗𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗮-𝗭𝘂𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗮 (Bank of Italy) will present his paper on 𝗝𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟯𝟬, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲. #EconSky #AcademicSky #Socsky Join us! Title: 𝗘𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗔𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀 𝗠𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗮 Time : 𝟭𝟬 𝗔𝗠 𝗘𝗦𝗧 ||𝟰 𝗣𝗠 𝗖𝗘𝗧 || 𝟭𝟭 𝗣𝗠 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗮 Registration: 👉 tinyurl.com/ekdw93ma 👇Abstract:

Standard intergenerational measures have been shown to understate the long-run persistence of socioeconomic advantages in developed countries. We study theoretically and empirically whether this pattern extends to less developed settings, using Indonesia as a case study. We estimate multigenerational correlations in education across three generations, using five waves of the Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS) and the 1995 and 2005 Censuses. Contrary to previous findings, we find a negative grandparent-grandchild coefficient, implying greater educational mobility than the intergenerational correlations from developing contexts typically suggest. We build a theoretical framework to identify two key factors influencing multigenerational transmission in developing countries: (1) financial and credit constraints, and (2) cultural norms surrounding marital sorting. To test the salience of these mechanisms in Indonesia, we analyze regional variations in marital practices, education expenditures, and the impact of 1997 Asian financial crisis.

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RNIM (Research Network on Intergenerational Mobility) @rnim-seminar.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

𝗗𝗶𝗼𝗴𝗼 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗼 (Bocconi U) will present his paper on 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟮, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱. #EconSky #AcademicSky #Socsky Join us! Title: 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗮𝘀𝗵 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗳𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 Time : 𝟵 𝗔𝗠 𝗘𝗦𝗧 || 𝟯 𝗣𝗠 𝗖𝗘𝗧 || 𝟭𝟬 𝗣𝗠 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗮 Registration: 👉 tinyurl.com/ekdw93ma 👇Abstract:

Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) are widely used as a poverty reduction policy. While a large stream of literature has evaluated their short-term impacts, we know far less about their long-term effects. This paper investigates the long-term, intergenerational effects of one of the largest CCT in the world: Brazil's Programa Bolsa Família (PBF). To estimate PBF long-term effects, we compare adult outcomes of siblings more and less exposed to the program due to their age in families targeted and not by the program using a difference-in-differences design and a comprehensive set of population-wide administrative datasets. We show that PBF significantly increases human capital accumulation, earnings, and intergenerational income mobility, and that it reduces welfare dependency by the next generation. These effects are more pronounced for younger children and women, highlighting the importance of early exposure to the program. Our findings underscore the effectiveness of PBF in breaking the intergenerational cycle of poverty and fostering social mobility.

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RNIM (Research Network on Intergenerational Mobility) @rnim-seminar.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

𝗔𝗻𝘁𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗼 𝗗𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗮-𝗭𝘂𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗮 (Bank of Italy) will present his paper on 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟰, 2025. #EconSky #AcademicSky #Socsky Join us! Title: 𝗘𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗔𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀 𝗠𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗮 Time : 𝟭𝟬 𝗔𝗠 𝗘𝗦𝗧 ||𝟰 𝗣𝗠 𝗖𝗘𝗧 || 𝟭𝟭 𝗣𝗠 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗮 Registration: 👉 tinyurl.com/ekdw93ma 👇Abstract:

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RNIM (Research Network on Intergenerational Mobility) @rnim-seminar.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

𝗞𝗼𝗵𝗲𝗶 𝗧𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗱𝗮 (NUS) will present his paper 𝗼𝗻 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟮. #EconSky #AcademicSky #Socsky Join us! Title: 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆: 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗘𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨.𝗦 Time: 𝟭𝟬 𝗔𝗠 𝗘𝗦𝗧 || 𝟰 𝗣𝗠 𝗖𝗘𝗧 || 𝟭𝟬 𝗣𝗠 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗮 Registration: 👉 tinyurl.com/ekdw93ma 👇Abstract:

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RNIM (Research Network on Intergenerational Mobility) @rnim-seminar.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

📢 𝗭𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗕𝗹𝗲𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗿 (Princeton U) will present his paper on college mobility on 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟲, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱. #EconSky #AcademicSky #Socsky Join us! Title: 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗽𝗶𝗽𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝟭𝟵𝟬𝟬 Time: 𝟭𝟬 𝗔𝗠 𝗘𝗦𝗧 || 𝟰 𝗣𝗠 𝗖𝗘𝗧 || 𝟭𝟬 𝗣𝗠 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗮 Registration: 👉 tinyurl.com/ekdw93ma 👇Abstract:

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RNIM (Research Network on Intergenerational Mobility) @rnim-seminar.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

𝗔𝗻𝗻𝗮 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗯𝘂𝗿𝘆 (𝗠𝗜𝗧) [ annastansbury.bsky.social ] will present on June 20, 2025. #EconSky Join us! Title: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝗚𝗮𝗽 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗿 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻: 𝗘𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗔𝗰𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗮 Time: 𝟭𝟬 𝗔𝗠 𝗘𝗦𝗧 || 𝟰 𝗣𝗠 𝗖𝗘𝗧 || 𝟭𝟬 𝗣𝗠 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗮 Registration: 👉https://sites.google.com/view/rnim-seminar/home?authuser=0 👇Abstract:

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RNIM (Research Network on Intergenerational Mobility) @rnim-seminar.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

📢 𝗔𝗻𝗻𝗮 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗯𝘂𝗿𝘆 (𝗠𝗜𝗧) will present on June 20, 2025. Please join the seminar! Title: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝗚𝗮𝗽 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗿 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻: 𝗘𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗔𝗰𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗮 Time: 𝟭𝟬 𝗔𝗠 𝗘𝗦𝗧 || 𝟰 𝗣𝗠 𝗖𝗘𝗧 || 𝟭𝟬 𝗣𝗠 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗮 Registration: 👉https://sites.google.com/view/rnim-seminar/home?authuser=0 👇Abstract:

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RNIM (Research Network on Intergenerational Mobility) @rnim-seminar.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

📢 Join the RNIM Seminar on May 23 to learn about Dr. Forhad Shilpi's latest research on Intergenerational Mobility. Title: Opportunity and Risk Time: 10 AM EST || 4 PM CET || 10 PM China Registration: 👉 sites.google.com/view/rnim-se... Abstract:👇

The standard measures of intergenerational mobility do not account for risk. We develop a broader approach where conditional variance of children's outcome is a summary statistic for life-time risks. Conditional variance of children's schooling declines with father's education. We derive risk-adjusted measures of educational mobility by accounting for the risk premium implied by conditional variance. Estimates of risk-adjusted mobility in China, India, and Indonesia suggest that the standard measures overestimate relative and absolute educational mobility. The overestimation is substantial for the disadvantaged children and daughters, but negligible for the children of college-educated fathers.

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RNIM (Research Network on Intergenerational Mobility) @rnim-seminar.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

📢 Announcing a virtual seminar on May 23 at 10 AM (EST). Dr. Forhad Shilpi (DRG,World Bank) will present her latest research paper, 'Opportunity and Risk.' All are welcome! Register here:👉 sites.google.com/view/rnim-se... #Intergenerational-Mobility #Academic #Seminar #Economics #Sociology

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The Research Network on Intergenerational Mobility (RNIM) is an initiative by scholars working on intergenerational mobility. The aim of the network is to provide a platform for both senior and junior...

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