Social Mobility in Developing Countries Concepts, Methods, and Determinants

by Iversen, Vegard; Krishna, Anirudh; Sen, Kunal

• ISBN13: 9780192896858
• ISBN10: 0192896857
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2022-03-21
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Vegard Iversen, Professor of Development Economics and Head of the Livelihoods and Institutions Department, Natural Resources Institute (NRI), University of Greenwich,Anirudh Krishna, Edgar T. Thompson Professor of Public Policy and Political Science, Duke University,Kunal Sen, Director, UNU-WIDER

Vegard Iversen is Professor of Development Economics and Head of the Livelihoods and Institutions Department, Natural Resources Institute (NRI), University of Greenwich. After completing his PhD in development economics from University of Cambridge in 2000, he was tenured faculty at School of
Development Studies, University of East Anglia until he moved to India in 2006. While living and working in India he was a Research Fellow in IFPRI's New Delhi office, a visiting faculty member at Indian Statistical Institute (Delhi), a Professor and Vice Dean at Jindal School of Government and
Public Policy, an Adjunct Professor at Sanford School of Public Policy's Duke Semester in India programme and a Professor in the Economics Area, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. He received the Annual Dudley Seers Memorial Prize for the best article in Journal of Development Studies in 2008
and has served on the journal's editorial board since 2016.

Anirudh Krishna is the Edgar T. Thompson Professor of Public Policy and Political Science at Duke University. He received his PhD in government from Cornell University in 2000, and a Master's in economics from Delhi University in 1980. Professor Krishna's research investigates how poor communities
and individuals in developing countries cope with the structural and personal constraints that result in poverty and powerlessness. Before returning to academia in 2000, he spent 14 years with the Indian Administrative Service, managing diverse rural and urban development initiatives. He received an
honorary doctorate from Uppsala University in 2011; the Olaf Palme Visiting Professorship from the Swedish Research Council in 2007; the Dudley Seers Memorial Prize in 2005 and 2013; and a best article award of the American Political Science Association in 2002.

Kunal Sen has over three decades of experience in academic and applied development economics research. He is the author of eight books and the editor of five volumes on the economics and political economy of development. He is Director of UNU-WIDER in Helsinki, and is a Professor of development
economics at the Global Development Institute, University of Manchester. Professor Sen is a leading international expert on the political economy of growth and development. He has performed extensive research on international finance, the political economy determinants of inclusive growth, the
dynamics of poverty, social exclusion, female labour force participation, and the informal sector in developing economies. His research has focused on India, East Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa. He was awarded the Sanjaya Lall Prize in 2006 and the Dudley Seers Prize in 2003 for his publications.

Table of Contents

PART I. INTRODUCTION
1. The state of knowledge about social mobility in the developing world, Vegard Iversen, Anirudh Krishna, and Kunal Sen
PART II: THEORY AND CONCEPTS
2. Drivers of mobility in the Global South, Patrizio Piraino
3. Exploring concepts of social mobility, Gary Fields
4. Social mobility in developing countries: Measurement and downward mobility pitfalls, Vegard Iversen
5. In praise of snapshots, Ravi Kanbur
PART III: TYPES OF MOBILITY
6. Income mobility in the developing world: Recent approaches and evidence, Himanshu and Peter Lanjouw
7. Educational mobility in the developing world, Florencia Torche
8. Rethinking occupational mobility in developing countries: Conceptual issues and empirical findings, Anthony Heath and Yizhang Zhao
PART IV: DIALOGUE ON MEASUREMENT AND METHODS
9. Economic approach to intergenerational mobility: Measures, methods, and challenges in developing countries, M. Shahe Emran and Forhad Shilpi
10. Social mobility in China: A case study of social mobility research in the Global South, Yaojun Li
11. Ethnography and social mobility: A review, Divya Vaid
12. Measuring social mobility in historic and less developed societies, Gregory Clark
PART V: DRIVERS AND INHIBITORS
13. Social mobility and human capital in low- and middle-income countries, Jere Behrman
14. Informalities, volatility, and precarious social mobility in urban slums, Anirudh Krishna and Emily Rains
15. Gender and social mobility: Exploring gender attitudes and women's labour force participation, Nancy Luke
16. Social mobility and horizontal inequality, Patricia Funjika and Rachel M. Gisselquist
17. Social networks as levers of mobility, Anandi Mani and Emma Riley
PART VI: CONCLUSIONS
18. Social mobility in developing countries: Directions for research practice, knowledge gaps and policy support, Vegard Iversen, Anirudh Krishna, and Kunal Sen