Schooling Opportunities and Intergenerational Educational Mobility in Turkey: An IV Estimation Using Census Data |
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| Authors: | Ayça Akarçay-Gürbüz |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Economics, Galatasaray University Economic Research Center (GIAM), Galatasaray University, Istanbul, Turkey |
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| Abstract: | We estimate the intergenerational transmission of education in Turkey using micro-data from the 1990 and 2000 censuses and an instrumental variable (IV) approach. We construct a historical series of provincial enrolment rates by gender to isolate the environmental effect on parental education. The results reveal that intergenerational educational mobility increases over time through a stronger decrease in the transmission of paternal education. The improvement is larger for boys, and the transmission is higher for mother-daughter pairs and in the case of poorer educated parents. |
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