Educational inheritance and the distribution of occupations: Evidence from South Africa

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dc.creatorKeswell, Malcolm
dc.creatorGirdwood, Sarah
dc.creatorLeibbrandt, Murray
dc.date2014-06-25T10:24:16Z
dc.date2014-06-25T10:24:16Z
dc.date2013
dc.date.accessioned2015-05-28T10:06:42Z
dc.date.available2015-05-28T10:06:42Z
dc.date.issued2015-05-28
dc.descriptionWe analyze the role of educational opportunity in shaping inequality in the distribution of occupations in the long run. We use the timing of political events in the history of the struggle to end Apartheid to devise an identification strategy that permits a causal interpretation of the role of educational opportunity. We find evidence that educational opportunity has a strong conditioning effect on the distribution of occupations in steady state. In particular, African female children who inherit the same level of educational opportunity as their parents are 6 percentage points more likely to be in the bottom of the occupation distribution than if they were exposed to better educational opportunities. An alternative identification strategy based on matching on the probability of educational persistence suggests that this figure is approximately 10 percent for younger cohorts of African female children.
dc.identifierKeswell, M., Girdwood, S. & Leibbrandt, M. (2013). Educational inheritance and the distribution of occupations: Evidence from South Africa, Review of Income and Wealth, Series 59:S111-S137, October.
dc.identifierhttp://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/roiw.12066/abstract
dc.identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/11090/740
dc.identifier.ris TY - Journal Article DA - 2015-05-28 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town KW - Dynastic inequality KW - Intergenerational mobility KW - Occupation KW - Education KW - Apartheid LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2015 T1 - Educational inheritance and the distribution of occupations: Evidence from South Africa TI - Educational inheritance and the distribution of occupations: Evidence from South Africa UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11090/740 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11090/740
dc.languageen
dc.publisherReview of Income and Wealth
dc.publisher.departmentSALDRUen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Commerceen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subjectDynastic inequality
dc.subjectIntergenerational mobility
dc.subjectOccupation
dc.subjectEducation
dc.subjectApartheid
dc.titleEducational inheritance and the distribution of occupations: Evidence from South Africa
dc.typeJournal Article
uct.type.publicationResearchen_ZA
uct.type.resourceArticleen_ZA
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