TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Brück, Tilman
AU  - Esenaliev, Damir
        TI  - Post-Socialist Transition and the Intergenerational Transmission of Education in Kyrgyzstan
        PY  - 2013/Mar/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 7318
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp7318
        AB  - We investigate long-term trends in the intergenerational transmission of education in a low income country undergoing a transition from socialism to a market economy. We draw on evidence from Kyrgyzstan using data from three household surveys collected in 1993, 1998 and 2011. We find that Kyrgyzstan, like Eastern European middle income transition economies, generally maintained high educational mobility, comparable to the levels during Soviet times. However, we find that the younger cohorts, who were exposed to the transition during their school years, experienced a rapid decline in educational mobility. We also document that gender differences in schooling and educational mobility, found among older-aged individuals, disappeared in the younger population.
        KW  - intergenerational mobility
KW  - gender
KW  - Kyrgyzstan
KW  - educational attainment
KW  - transition economy
KW  - Central Asia
        ER  -