ABSTRACT
The primary survey-based data has been analyzed in this chapter. A detailed education-occupational matrix has been presented for determining the educational mobility among the sample households. The OLS has been run to examine correlation and persistence in father-son educational years. A multinomial logit model was used to examine the son's mobility toward various occupational categories based on the father's associated occupational categories. This chapter also examines parental expectations of their children across generations. The key finding is that educational mobility is higher than occupational mobility for the younger cohort. In terms of occupation, it also reveals that a significant fraction of sons follow in their fathers’ footsteps. The findings indicate that the father's occupation has a significant impact on his son's educational attainment. Muslims have demonstrated educational backwardness at various occupational and educational levels. Though the poor performance of Muslims in the lowest educational families is understandable, even the educational achievement of highly educated and decently employed families falls short of that of other groups. It also emphasizes the possibility of higher education for children whose fathers work in groups I and II. Aside from strength, the years of a father's schooling and the amount of the family's landholdings appear to be two additional equally essential determinants for academic outcomes. The most important findings are that, due to push and pull factors, occupational mobility is stronger in rural areas than in urban areas, and that educational mobility is much greater than occupational mobility. Urban sample households fare better than their rural counterparts on occupational mobility.
