Regional intergenerational mobility in Ecuador: many lands in one country
研究了厄瓜多尔各州代际流动性的区域差异，发现加拉帕戈斯等机会之地与中央安第斯等贫困陷阱并存，且迁移、教育、农业等因素与机会正相关，不平等和原住民比例则负相关。
We analyse the regional differences in eight measures of intergenerational mobility across cantons in Ecuador. Within-country estimates show heterogeneity with lands of opportunity, such as the Galápagos, and areas where poverty traps prevail, namely the Central Andes. This study also finds that better opportunities for children are associated with locations that have higher levels of migration, schooling, agriculture, family self-employment and oil activity, while inequality and the share of Indigenous people provide worse opportunities for mobility. These relationships are reinforced by spillovers across space, which, in Ecuador, are more likely to result in poverty cycles than privilege ones.