Intergenerational Mobility in Africa

Alberto Alesina, Sebastian Hohmann, Stelios Michalopoulos, Elias Papaioannou

NBER Working Paper No. 25534
Issued in February 2019, Revised in August 2020

---- Acknowledgments ----

We are grateful to three anonymous referees, and the editor Fabrizio Zilibotti, for extremely useful comments. Also, we thank our discussants in various conferences Oriana Bandiera, Sara Lowes, and Nathaniel Hendren as well as to Francesco Caselli, Raj Chetty, and Antonio Ciccone for detailed comments. We are thankful for useful discussions and feedback to James Fenske, Larry Katz, Nathan Nunn, David Weil, Elisa Cavatorta, Shaun Hargreaves, Jim Robinson, Sam Asher, Paul Novosad, Charlie Rafkin, and Yining Geng. We also got useful feedback from conference and seminar participants at the University of Zurich, UPF, Monash University, Warwick, Brown, Harvard, King's College, Tufts, Copenhagen, Sheffield, Williams, the NBER Summer Institute, and the PSE Conference on Culture, Institutions, and Economic Prosperity. We also thank Remi Jedwab, Adam Storeygard, Julia Cagé, Valeria Rueda and Nathan Nunn for sharing their data. Papaioannou gratefully acknowledges financial support from the European Research Council (Consolidator Grant ORDINARY), LBS Wheeler Institute for Business and Development, and RAMD. All errors and omissions are our responsibility. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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