Is there a Gatsby Curve for Educational Attainment in Arab Countries?
Ahmed Driouchi and
Alae Gamar
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Abstract This is to assess intergenerational mobility and inequalities in educational attainment in Arab countries with the aim of finding out about the existence of a Gatsby curve for education. The existence of links between intergenerational mobility and inequalities provide useful insights to new inclusive economic policies. The paper uses descriptive and regression analyzes based on Barro and Lee data (2014) for the period 1950-2010. The attained results confirm the existence of a relationship between education mobility and inequality in educational attainment. This negative relationship between inequalities and intergenerational mobility in education attainment confirms the existence of Gatsby curve for education in Arab countries. This allows for new directions for further economic policies for reducing education inequalities and enhancing more access of new generations to knowledge, in Arab countries.
Keywords: Keywords: Inequality; GINI; Intergenerational mobility; Education attainment; The Gatsby Curve; Arab countries. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I32 J62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-04-15, Revised 2015-04-22
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