Educational Intergenerational Mobility in Brazil: A Comparative Analysis of the Years 1996 and 2014

Abstract

Intergenerational transmission of education plays an important role in income inequality. The present study seeks to comparatively analyze the intergenerational educational mobility in the years 1996 and 2014. To do so, it made use of the educational mobility supplement of the National Household Sample Survey present for the years mentioned. The results suggest that there was an increase in the degree of educational intergenerational mobility characterized by a reduction in the educational persistence of less literate parents and an increase in the persistence of more educated parents. Co resident children showed a greater educational dynamic compared to the mobility of education of emancipated children. Families residing in rural areas and in the Northeast Region showed less educational mobility and women showed greater educational mobility.