Inequalities in educational outcomes. How important is the family?

Autor/inn/en	Bredtmann, Julia; Smith, Nina
Institution	Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit
Titel	Inequalities in educational outcomes. How important is the family? Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Ungleichheiten bei Bildungsergebnissen. Wie wichtig ist die Familie?
Quelle	Bonn (2016), 42 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	IZA discussion paper. 10286
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Bildung; Bildungschance; Bildungsmobilität; Chancengleichheit; Soziale Herkunft; Sozialisation; Generation; Familie; Bildung; Chancengleichheit; Dänemark; Familie; Mobilität; Sozialisation; Auswirkung; Soziale Herkunft; Generation; Ungleichheit; Bildungsabschluss; Sekundarbereich; Bildungsabschluss; Ungleichheit; Mobilität; Sozioökonomischer Faktor; Auswirkung; Dänemark
Abstract	"In this paper, we investigate sibling correlations in educational outcomes, which serve as a broad measure of the importance of family and community background. Making use of rich longitudinal survey and register data for Denmark, our main aim is to identify the parental background characteristics that are able to explain the resemblance in educational outcomes among siblings. We find sibling correlations in educational outcomes in the range of 15 to 33 percent, suggesting that up to a third of the variation in educational achievement can be explained by family and community background. Our results further reveal that parents' socio-economic background can account for a large part of the sibling correlation. Other family characteristics such as family structure, the incidence of social problems, and parents' educational preferences also play a role, though these factors only contribute to explaining sibling similarities at lower levels of the educational distribution." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2017/2