TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Asadullah, Niaz
        TI  - Intergenerational Wealth Mobility in Rural Bangladesh
        PY  - 2011/Aug/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 5914
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp5914
        AB  - Unique residential history data with retrospective information on parental assets are used to study household wealth mobility in 141 villages in rural Bangladesh. Regression estimates of father-son correlations and analyses of intergenerational transition matrices show substantial persistence in wealth even when we correct for measurement errors in parental wealth. We do not find wealth mobility to be higher between periods of a person's life than between generations. We find that the process of household division plays an important role: sons who splinter off from the father's household experience greater (albeit downward) mobility in wealth. Despite significant occupational mobility across generations, its contribution to wealth mobility, net of human capital attainment of individuals, appears insignificant. Low wealth mobility in our data is primarily explained by intergenerational persistence in educational attainment.
        KW  - transition matrix
KW  - schooling mobility
KW  - occupational mobility
KW  - household wealth
KW  - intergenerational inequality
KW  - Bangladesh
        ER  -