HEREDITARY BURDEN OR BLESSING? EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT OF MOTHERS TO DAUGHTERS IN PAKISTAN

Persistence in educational status across generations creates underdevelopment, and misallocation of skills and talents. It decreases attraction and desire for education, contributing to slowing economic economic growth and increasing poverty and inequality. The current study aims to determine the strength of educational mobility in Pakistan using data of mothers and daughters generation. The study uses "Pakistan Social and Living Standards Measurement (PSLM-2014-15)" survey data. The results revealed strong persistence in educational achievement between daughters and mothers generations. The OLS estimates demonstrate a positive role of father and mother education in achieving daughter education. The rural regions show more persistence in educational status than the urban areas. The results of transition matrices and multinomial logit models corroborate that the chances for daughters to attain high levels of education increase with the increase in their mothers' level of education.