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Unequal Gradients: Sex, Skin Tone, and Intergenerational Economic Mobility

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dc.contributor.authorMonroy-Gómez-Franco, Luis
dc.contributor.authorVélez-Grajales, Roberto
dc.contributor.authorYalonetzky, Gastón
dc.contributor.departmentUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst
dc.contributor.departmentCentro de Estudios Espinosa Yglesias
dc.contributor.departmentLeeds University
dc.date2023-10-02T18:46:24.000
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-26T16:31:55Z
dc.date.available2023-02-08T00:00:00Z
dc.date.issued2023-01-01
dc.description.abstractWe study how the intersection between skin tone and sex shapes intergenerational mobility of economic resources in Mexico. Using two recent social mobility surveys, we estimate the rank persistence and transition matrices by sex combined with skin tone groups. First, we find no differences in intergenerational mobility patterns between light-skin men and women. Second, the colorist mobility pattern observed in previous literature affects men and women differently. Namely, while women of intermediate and dark-skin tonalities have a lower expected rank than their light-skin peers, only men of the darkest tonalities suffer from the same penalization. Thirdly, women of intermediate and darker skin tones have lower persistence rates at the top of the distribution of economic resources than men of the same skin tonality.
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.7275/gck4-nc50
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14394/22332
dc.relation.urlhttps://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1347&context=econ_workingpaper&unstamped=1
dc.rightsUMass Amherst Open Access Policy
dc.source.issue2023-1
dc.source.statuspublished
dc.subjectStratification economics
dc.subjectIntergenerational mobility
dc.subjectSkin tone
dc.subjectGender inequality
dc.subjectMexico
dc.subjectIncome Distribution
dc.subjectPublic Economics
dc.titleUnequal Gradients: Sex, Skin Tone, and Intergenerational Economic Mobility
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digcom.contributor.authorisAuthorOfPublication|email:lmonroygomez@umass.edu|institution:University of Massachusetts Amherst|Monroy-Gómez-Franco, Luis
digcom.contributor.authorVélez-Grajales, Roberto
digcom.contributor.authorYalonetzky, Gastón
digcom.date.embargo2023-02-08T00:00:00-08:00
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