Thread by @AditiBhowmick18

I hadn't paid close attention the striking gender upward mobility results in @thesamasher @paulnovosad @CharlesRafkin 's breakthrough work on intergenerational mobility in India before.🧵on these if like me, you missed a close read of them too 1/6

1. Daughters are less likely to escape low socio-economic status than sons. Father-daughter intergenerational mobility is two rank points lower than father-son mobility in this sample of birth cohorts from 1950-1989. 2/6

2. Over time, daughters of fathers in the bottom half of the education distribution have experienced the least gains in high school attainment whereas daughters born in the top half of the distribution have almost closed the gap with well-off sons. 3/6

3. Among daughters, with the exception of minor gains of well off SC families, none of the daughters in marginalized group households have made substantial gains in mobility relative to forward castes (the story is not the same for sons in SC/ST families).. 4/6

... This is pure speculation based on this result but did the closing of gap due to affirmative action only happen for sons and not daughters of marginalized group families? 🤷‍♀️ 5/6

4. Urban-rural gap is much higher for daughters than for sons, such that urban daughters' mobility is about five rank points higher than urban sons 6/6

... Bonus non gender related finding from the paper that is stuck in my head: "Cities and towns for the most part stand out as islands of higher mobility. However, there is not a single subdistrict or town in Bihar with higher average mobility than the southern states" 🤐

Paper link in case you feel like reading it end to end:
paulnovosad.com/pdf/anr-india-…