Inequalities in Educational Outcomes: How Important Is the Family?
利用丹麦的行政和纵向调查数据，研究兄弟姐妹在教育成果上的相关性，发现家庭背景能解释超过三分之一的教育成就差异，且父母社会经济背景是主要因素。
Abstract Using rich administrative and longitudinal survey data for Denmark, we investigate sibling correlations in educational outcomes, which serve as a broad measure of the importance of family and community background. We find sibling correlations of up to 0.38, suggesting that more than a third of the variation in educational achievement can be explained by family 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, social problems and parents’ educational preferences only contribute to explaining sibling similarities at lower levels of the educational distribution.