Are Daughters Like Mothers: Evidence on Intergenerational Educational Mobility Among Young Females in India Akanksha Choudhary 1 • Ashish Singh 1 Accepted: 3 June 2016 / Published online: 14 June 2016 Ó Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2016 Abstract Taking data from the ‘India Youth Survey: Situation and Needs’ the paper examines intergenerational educational mobility for young females (vis-a `-vis their moth- ers) in India. The paper uses transition/mobility matrices and mobility measures widely used in the literature on intergenerational mobility for the examination. The overall intergenerational educational mobility among the young females in India is about 0.69 (the upper limit being 1). The upwards component of the overall intergenerational educational mobility is 0.55 (that is, nearly four-fifth of the overall). Also, the intergenerational edu- cational mobility is slightly higher in the ‘Scheduled Castes and Tribes (SC/ST)’ compared to the ‘Other Backward Castes (OBC)’ as well as ‘Others’ castes. But the upward mobility is substantially higher in the ‘Others’ caste group compared to SC/STs. The upward mobility among the OBCs is higher than that of SC/STs but lower than that of the ‘Others’ category. Also, the overall mobility as well as upward mobility is higher in urban areas. Moreover, there are large inter-state variations with the economically and demographically poorer states having substantially lower overall as well as upward mobility than the eco- nomically and demographically advanced states. Keywords Intergenerational educational mobility Á Educational mobility decomposition Á Educational endowment trap Á Mothers’ education Á Females’ education Á India & Akanksha Choudhary choudharyj.akanksha@gmail.com Ashish Singh singhmb.ashish@gmail.com 1 SJM School of Management, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai 400076, India 123 Soc Indic Res (2017) 133:601–621 DOI 10.1007/s11205-016-1380-8