Does Improved Local Supply of Schooling Enhance Intergenerational Mobility in Education? : Evidence from Jordan

Assaad, Ragui ; Saleh, Mohamed

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: intergenerational mobility;    education;    inequality;    school supply;    secondary education;   

DOI  :  10.1596/1813-9450-7825
RP-ID  :  WPS7825

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

The impact of the growth of the localsupply of public schools in the post-Colonial period onintergenerational mobility in education is a first-orderquestion in the Arab World. This question is examined inJordan using a unique dataset that links individual data onown schooling and parents' schooling for adults, from ahousehold survey, with the supply of schools in thesubdistrict of birth at the time the individual was of ageto enroll, from a school census. The identification strategyexploits the variation in the supply of basic and secondarypublic schools across cohorts and subdistricts of birth inJordan, controlling for year and subdistrict-of-birth fixedeffects and interactions of governorate and year-of-birthfixed effects. The findings show that the local availabilityof basic public schools does, in fact, increaseintergenerational mobility in education. For instance, a onestandard deviation increase in the supply of basic publicschools per 1,000 people reduces the father-son andmother-son associations of schooling by 18-20 percent andthe father-daughter and mother-daughter associations by33-44 percent. However, an increase in the local supply ofsecondary public schools does not seem to have an effect onthe intergenerational mobility in education.