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Corruption and calcified hierarchies : how institutional quality shapes intergenerational mobility in Italy
| datacite.subject.fos | Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão | |
| datacite.subject.sdg | 04:Educação de Qualidade | |
| datacite.subject.sdg | 10:Reduzir as Desigualdades | |
| datacite.subject.sdg | 16:Paz, Justiça e Instituições Eficazes | |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Silva, Joana | |
| dc.contributor.author | Prisco, Immacolata | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-11-24T13:47:35Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-11-24T13:47:35Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2025-07-10 | |
| dc.date.submitted | 2024-06-01 | |
| dc.description.abstract | We estimate intergenerational mobility in Italy and examine the role of corruption in observed mobility patterns. Using cross-sectional data from the Bank of Italy's Survey on Household Income and Wealth (SHIW) spanning 2004-2022, we first establish baseline mobility estimates across educational, occupational, and income dimensions. Given the lack of parental income information we employ Two-Sample Two-Stage Least Squares (TSTSLS) to impute fathers' income from retrospective characteristics reported by sons. Then, to identify corruption's causal impact on educational mobility, we employ Two-Stage Least Squares (2SLS) methodology, instrumenting corruption with regional cheating indicators and between-class test score variability. To investigate the underlying transmission mechanisms, we use multinomial logistic models through which corruption's effects on occupational inheritability and education devaluation are tested. Results show substantial intergenerational persistence: our corrected income elasticity estimate indicates that 38% of income advantages are transmitted across generations, while the rank-rank slope of 0.362 implies children from top-decile families rank 29 percentiles higher than those from bottom-decile families. Examining corruption's role, we find it strengthens the intergenerational transmission of education. A one standard deviation increase in corruption reduces educational attainment by 1.02 years for children from uneducated families, while each additional year of parental education offsets this effect by 0.056 years. Investigating the underlying transmission mechanisms, we find corruption increases occupational inheritability, primarily protecting elite status and devalues education as a mobility tool. | eng |
| dc.description.abstract | Estimamos a mobilidade intergeracional na Itália e examinamos o papel da corrupção nos padrões de mobilidade observados. Utilizando dados cross-sectional do Survey on Household Income and Wealth (SHIW) do Banco de Itália (2004-2022) estabelecemos estimativas baseline de mobilidade nas dimensões educacional, ocupacional e de rendimento. Empregamos o método Two-Sample Two-Stage Least Squares (TSTSLS) para imputar o rendimento dos pais e a metodologia Two-Stage Least Squares (2SLS), instrumentalizando a corrupção com indicadores regionais de cheating e between-class test score variability, para identificar o impacto causal da corrupção na mobilidade educacional. Para investigar os mecanismos subjacentes, utilizamos modelos multinomial logistic para testar os efeitos da corrupção na occupational inheritability e na education devaluation. Os resultados mostram persistência intergeracional substancial: a nossa estimativa corrigida de income elasticity indica que 38% das vantagens de rendimento são transmitidas entre gerações, enquanto o rank-rank slope de 0,362 implica que filhos de famílias do décimo superior classificam-se 29 percentis acima daqueles do décimo inferior. A corrupção fortalece significativamente a transmissão intergeracional da educação. Um aumento de um standard deviation na corrupção reduz o nível educacional em 1,02 anos para filhos de famílias sem educação, enquanto cada ano adicional de educação parental compensa este efeito em 0,056 anos. A corrupção aumenta a occupational inheritability, protegendo o estatuto de elite e desvalorizando a educação como ferramenta de mobilidade. | por |
| dc.identifier.tid | 203974913 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/55702 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.rights.uri | N/A | |
| dc.subject | Corrupção | |
| dc.subject | Corruption | |
| dc.subject | Desvalorização da educação | |
| dc.subject | Education devaluation | |
| dc.subject | Intergenerational mobility | |
| dc.subject | Mobilidade intergeracional | |
| dc.title | Corruption and calcified hierarchies : how institutional quality shapes intergenerational mobility in Italy | eng |
| dc.title.alternative | Corrupção e hierarquias calcificadas : como a qualidade institucional molda a mobilidade intergeracional na Itália | por |
| dc.type | master thesis | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| thesis.degree.name | Mestrado em Economia |
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