Intergenerational persistence of educational status in South Africa

dc.contributor.advisorPiraino, Patrizio
dc.contributor.authorRhodes, Benedict
dc.date.accessioned2020-02-05T07:28:40Z
dc.date.available2020-02-05T07:28:40Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.date.updated2020-02-04T12:36:08Z
dc.description.abstractThis 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.apacitationRhodes, B. (2019). <i>Intergenerational persistence of educational status in South Africa</i>. (). ,Faculty of Commerce ,School of Economics. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/30864en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationRhodes, Benedict. <i>"Intergenerational persistence of educational status in South Africa."</i> ., ,Faculty of Commerce ,School of Economics, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/30864en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationRhodes, 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.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/30864
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationRhodes 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/11427/30864en_ZA
dc.language.rfc3066eng
dc.publisher.departmentSchool of Economics
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Commerce
dc.subjectEconomics
dc.titleIntergenerational persistence of educational status in South Africa
dc.typeMaster Thesis
dc.type.qualificationlevelMasters
dc.type.qualificationnameMCom
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