Intergenerational mobility and self-selection on unobserved skills: New evidence

Journal for Labour Market Research

Table 1 Descriptive Statistics on Individual and Parental Years of Schooling

	\({S}_{i}^{O}\)	\({S}_{i}^{F}\)	\({S}_{i}^{M}\)	\({S}_{i}^{P}=\mathrm{max}\left\{{S}_{i}^{F}, {S}_{i}^{M}\right\}\)	Age
Mean	9.00	5.97	3.85	6.48	23.34
Standard deviation	4.89	5.87	5.21	5.91	3.92
10th decile	0	0	0	0	19
20th decile	4	0	0	0	20
30th decile	7	0	0	0	20
40th decile	9	2	0	3	21
50th decile	11	5.5	0	6	22
60th decile	12	8	3	9	24
70th decile	12	10	6	12	26
80th decile	12	12	9	12	27
90th decile	14	14	12	14	29

\({S}_{i}^{O}\): Individual years of schooling of asylum seekers; \({S}_{i}^{F}\): Father’s years of schooling; \({S}_{i}^{M}\): Mother’s years of schooling; \({S}_{i}^{P}\): Years of schooling of the parent with the highest years of schooling among the two. Last column displays the average and distribution of the age of respondents. Source: Own estimates. Sample taken from `Real-world Laboratory Survey among Asylum Seekers’