Intergenerational persistence of educational status in South Africa
dc.contributor.advisor | Piraino, Patrizio | |
dc.contributor.author | Rhodes, Benedict | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-02-05T07:28:40Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-02-05T07:28:40Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019 | |
dc.date.updated | 2020-02-04T12:36:08Z | |
dc.description.abstract | This paper has used the NIDS dataset to measure the intergenerational mobility of education, over a ten-year period in South Africa. The research considers both father-son and motherdaughter pairs over the last ten years and yields interesting results, displaying a clear increase in educational mobility in terms of the estimated regression and correlation coefficients for both father-son and mother-daughter pairs. However, decomposing this result into educational cohorts, the distribution of the increase in educational mobility is not experienced uniformly, with a more mobile education system predominantly falling on the children of parents with a high school level of education. Children whose parents had no education and those whose parents were educated at a tertiary level experienced increases in the persistence of educational status. These results have serious policy implications as the average level of education has increased, yet these increases have not been experienced equally and are dependent on family background. | |
dc.identifier.apacitation | Rhodes, B. (2019). <i>Intergenerational persistence of educational status in South Africa</i>. (). ,Faculty of Commerce ,School of Economics. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/30864 | en_ZA |
dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Rhodes, Benedict. <i>"Intergenerational persistence of educational status in South Africa."</i> ., ,Faculty of Commerce ,School of Economics, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/30864 | en_ZA |
dc.identifier.citation | Rhodes, B. 2019. Intergenerational persistence of educational status in South Africa. | en_ZA |
dc.identifier.ris | TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Rhodes, Benedict AB - This paper has used the NIDS dataset to measure the intergenerational mobility of education, over a ten-year period in South Africa. The research considers both father-son and motherdaughter pairs over the last ten years and yields interesting results, displaying a clear increase in educational mobility in terms of the estimated regression and correlation coefficients for both father-son and mother-daughter pairs. However, decomposing this result into educational cohorts, the distribution of the increase in educational mobility is not experienced uniformly, with a more mobile education system predominantly falling on the children of parents with a high school level of education. Children whose parents had no education and those whose parents were educated at a tertiary level experienced increases in the persistence of educational status. These results have serious policy implications as the average level of education has increased, yet these increases have not been experienced equally and are dependent on family background. DA - 2019 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town KW - Economics LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PY - 2019 T1 - Intergenerational persistence of educational status in South Africa TI - Intergenerational persistence of educational status in South Africa UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/30864 ER - | en_ZA |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/30864 | |
dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Rhodes B. Intergenerational persistence of educational status in South Africa. []. ,Faculty of Commerce ,School of Economics, 2019 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/30864 | en_ZA |
dc.language.rfc3066 | eng | |
dc.publisher.department | School of Economics | |
dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Commerce | |
dc.subject | Economics | |
dc.title | Intergenerational persistence of educational status in South Africa | |
dc.type | Master Thesis | |
dc.type.qualificationlevel | Masters | |
dc.type.qualificationname | MCom |