@techreport{Blaess2005Siblings,
abstract = {Individual decisions on education are still an important topic in social
sciences research. Our goal is an analysis of the impact of siblings on
educational attainment in West Germany. Theories of educational decisions
in a family context suggest several possible effects of siblings.
During the 1990s, several authors analyzed this relationship for the
United States and came up with contradictory results on the relative
importance of different factors. Consequently, an empirical analysis
is required, which is provided in this paper based on data from the
GSOEP. In order to control for unobservable heterogeneity in educational
decisions, several empirical specifications including propensity
score matching are tested. The results suggest that boys are favored
by their parents relative to girls. Furthermore, the gender of their
siblings shows no significant impact on the educational attainment of
boys, while a significant effect is found for girls. Finally, the educational
attainment of an elder sibling shows a significant and positive
effect on education decisions of the second child.},
author = {Virginie Blaess},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {I20; C14; C13; 330; Unobservable heterogeneity; matching; ordered-probit; Bildungsverhalten; Bildungsniveau; Familiensoziologie; Geschlecht; Kinder; Sch\"{a}tzung; Deutschland},
language = {eng},
number = {2005,001E},
title = {Siblings and Educational Attainment in West Germany},
type = {Discussion paper / Universit\"{a}t Erfurt, Staatswissenschaftliche Fakult\"{a}t},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/23938},
year = {2005}
}
