Journal Article

Sibling spillover effects in school achievement

Authors

Publication date

Jun 2019

Summary

This paper provides empirical evidence on sibling spillover effects in school achievement using administrative data on 230,000 siblings in England. We extend previous strategies to identify peer effects by exploiting the variation in school test scores across subjects observed at ages 11 and 16 as well as variation in peer quality between siblings. We find a statistically significant positive spillover effect from the older to the younger sibling. Sibling spillovers account for a non‐negligible proportion of the attainment gap between low‐ and higher income pupils in England.

Published in

Journal of Applied Econometrics

Volume and page numbers

34 , 482 -501

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1002/jae.2674

ISSN

16

Subjects

Education, Child Development, and Households

Notes

Open Access; This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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