Do Birth Order Effects on Secondary School Track Placement Differ Between Natives and Migrants? A Within-Family Analysis in the German Educational System.

Autor/inn/en	Roth, Tobias; Pforr, Klaus; Mingham, Sandra; Selbach, Meike
Titel	Do Birth Order Effects on Secondary School Track Placement Differ Between Natives and Migrants? A Within-Family Analysis in the German Educational System. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Unterscheiden sich die Auswirkungen der Geburtsreihenfolge auf die Platzierung in der weiterführenden Schule zwischen Einheimischen und Migranten? : Eine innerfamiliäre Analyse im deutschen Bildungssystem.
Quelle	In: European sociological review, 38 (2022) 3, S. 440-454Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0266-7215; 1468-2672
DOI	10.1093/esr/jcab047
Schlagwörter	Bildung; Erfahrungswissen; Bildungschance; Chancengleichheit; Familie; Sohn; Tochter; Eltern; Schullaufbahn; Beratung; Sekundarbereich; Schullaufbahnentscheidung; Zweite Generation; Wissenstransfer; Inländer; Erste Generation; Informationsgewinn; Deutschland
Abstract	"While existing research has found negative birth order effects on competences and educational attainment in various Western countries with different educational systems, it is unclear whether these findings also hold in families with migration background. We argue that in migrant families where children were born in the host country, birth order effects on secondary school track placement should be weak or even reversed. In these families, parents' host country-specific resources and knowledge of the education system are likely to be comparatively low. Consequently, older siblings who were born and educated in the host country can be an important source of information and support on educational matters for their younger siblings. Moreover, parental knowledge of the education system should increase with the educational career of each of their children. Family fixed-effects models based on representative data from the German Microcensus show negative birth order effects on secondary school track placement for native, first-generation migrant, and interethnic siblings, but not for second-generation migrant siblings. The empirical results indicate that negative birth order effects are not necessarily universal, but that children may even benefit from having older siblings under certain conditions." The study refers to the period 2008-2016. (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku)..
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2023/1