Sibling spillover effects in school achievement

Publication type

Journal Article

Authors

Publication date

June 15, 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

Volume: 34 , p.482 -501

DOI

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

ISSN

8837252

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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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