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The empirical evidence shows a negative relationship between both measures of the intergenerational persistence of educational outcomes and public expenditure on education per student relative to GDP per capita, suggesting that public investment in education could foster mobility in the region.
We analyse next whether this persistence of educational attainments has varied across cohorts.
Figure 5 shows estimates for both measures of persistence of educational attainment by country, and their 95%% confidence intervals.
Figure 2 shows the beta-coefficient estimate, suggesting that the persistence of educational attainments decreases across cohorts, implying higher levels of mobility for the younger generations.
First, column (1) shows that the coefficient indicating intergenerational persistence of educational attainment is always significant, and there is no large variation among countries.
Hertz et al. (2007) estimate 50-year trends in intergenerational persistence of educational attainment for 42 countries, finding the largest intergenerational correlations in the seven Latin American countries included in their analysis.
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Their definition reads as follows: "Student success is defined as academic achievement, engagement in educationally purposeful activities, satisfaction, acquisition of desired knowledge, skills, and competencies, persistence, attainment of educational outcomes, and post-college performance" (p. 5).
In column 3, the effect of being female on educational attainment is shown: females show lower persistence of intergenerational educational attainment in Bolivia, Chile, El Salvador, Paraguay and Peru.
We may be able to predict the next Baltimore or Ferguson by examining incarceration rates, or the depth and persistence of income, health and educational disparities.
The panorama is always the same: the persistence of stereotypes in the choice of educational and professional guidelines, over-representation of women in certain sectors such as the textile industry, the pay gap, working conditions and career prospects.
Comparing final educational achievements for 18 Latin American countries, this paper finds that measures of the persistence in educational achievements across generations, such as beta- and partial correlation coefficients, are high.
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