De Kock, Tryston2024-06-212024-06-212023De Kock, Tryston. (2023). Bottom-half Intergenerational Mobility Among the Coloured Population in South Africa [Master’s dissertation, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg]. WireDSpace. https://hdl.handle.net/10539/38720https://hdl.handle.net/10539/38720A Research Report submitted in partial fulfillment of the Degree of Master of Commerce (Applied Development Economics) in the School of Economics and Finance, University of the Witwatersrand, 2023I examined the intergenerational mobility of education among the Coloured population in South Africa between 1975 and 1990. I used the National Income Dynamics Study to measure intergenerational mobility among Coloured children born to parents at the bottom of the education distribution-this includes parents with an educational attainment lower than grade 10. I found across the whole population; the median rank of education is grade 10 – making grade 10 my middle point. I compared several intergenerational mobility indices with bottom-half mobility and look at the IGE and IGC indices for sons, as well as the summary statistics for the coloured, African, and White populations. I suggested that Coloured daughters born to mothers in the bottom half of the education distribution have experienced a decrease in upward mobility meanwhile upward mobility has increased for Coloured sons. However, I suggested Coloured daughters born to parents with educational attainment lower than grade 10 have a higher chance of increasing their educational attainment compared to Coloured sons. I also compared mobility estimates between Coloured children born in the Western and Northern Cape with Coloured children born elsewhere. I found that Coloured children born in the former have lower upward mobility compared to Coloured children born elsewhereen© 2023 University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.Bottom-half Intergenerational MobilityColoured PopulationEducationUCTDSDG-17: Partnerships for the goalsDissertationUniversity of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg