Schooling Opportunities and Intergenerational Educational Mobility in Turkey: An IV Estimation Using Census Data
JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES, vol.53, no.9, pp.1396-1413, 2017 (SSCI, Scopus)
- Publication Type: Article / Article
- Volume: 53 Issue: 9
- Publication Date: 2017
- Doi Number: 10.1080/00220388.2016.1234038
- Journal Name: JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES
- Journal Indexes: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus
- Page Numbers: pp.1396-1413
- Open Archive Collection: AVESIS Open Access Collection
- Galatasaray University Affiliated: Yes
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.