TY - JOUR T1 - When Measure Matters: Coresidency, Truncation Bias, and Intergenerational Mobility in Developing Countries JF - Journal of Human Resources JO - J Hum Resour DO - 10.3368/jhr.53.3.0216-7737R1 SP - 0216-7737R1 AU - M. Shahe Emran AU - William Greene AU - Forhad Shilpi Y1 - 2017/04/19 UR - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/2017/04/18/jhr.53.3.0216-7737R1.abstract N2 - Biases from truncation caused by coresidency restriction have been a challenge for research on intergenerational mobility. Estimates of intergenerational schooling persistence from two data sets show that the intergenerational regression coefficient, the most widely used measure, is severely biased downward in coresident samples. But the bias in intergenerational correlation is much smaller, and is less sensitive to the coresidency rate. The paper provides explanations for these results. Comparison of intergenerational mobility based on the intergenerational regression coefficient across countries, gender, and over time can be misleading. Much progress on intergenerational mobility in developing countries can be made with the available data by focusing on intergenerational correlation. ER -