Cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and family background. Evidence from sibling correlations.

Autor/inn/en	Anger, Silke; Schnitzlein, Daniel D.
Institution	Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit
Titel	Cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and family background. Evidence from sibling correlations. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Kognitive Fähigkeiten, nicht-kognitive Fähigkeiten und familiärer Hintergrund. Befunde aus Geschwisterbeziehungen.
Quelle	Bamberg (2016), 44 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	BERG working paper series. 110
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
ISBN	978-3-943153-29-3
Schlagwörter	Bildung; Bildungschance; Bildungsmobilität; Chancengleichheit; Intelligenz (Psy); Kognitive Kompetenz; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Selbstverantwortung; Soziale Herkunft; Soziale Mobilität; Generation; Qualifikationserwerb; Auswirkung; Qualifikationsentwicklung; Reziprozität
Abstract	"This paper estimates sibling correlations in cognitive and non-cognitive skills to evaluate the importance of family background for skill formation. Based on a large representative German dataset including IQ test scores and measures of non-cognitive skills, a restricted maximum likelihood model indicates a strong relationship between family background and skill formation. Sibling correlations in non-cognitive skills range from 0.22 to 0.46; therefore, at least one-fifth of the variance in these skills results from shared sibling-related factors. Sibling correlations in cognitive skills are higher than 0.50; therefore, more than half of the inequality in cognition can be explained by shared family background. Comparing these findings with those in the intergenerational skill transmission literature suggests that intergenerational correlations capture only part of the influence of family on children's cognitive and non-cognitive skills, as confirmed by decomposition analyses and in line with previous findings on educational and income mobility." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2017/3