Inequality in Pupils' Test Scores: How Much do Family, Sibling Type and Neighbourhood Matter?

Nicoletti, Cheti; Rabe, Birgitta

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“…Lindahl (2011) concludes that family background is substantially more important than the neighborhood. This result is confirmed by Nicoletti and Rabe (2013) who also apply multilevel models to estimate the influence of family and neighborhood factors on pupil's test scores in the UK. At age 16, they report magnitudes of sibling and neighbor correlations of 0.61 and 0.14, respectively.…”

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“…They provide a descriptive summary measure of how much of the outcome of neighbors can be attributed to the shared neighborhood. Solon et al (2000), Page and Solon (2003), Raaum et al (2006), Lindahl (2011) and Nicoletti and Rabe (2013) provide evidence for the US, Norway, Sweden and the UK, finding only weak neighbor correlations compared to sibling correlations for monetary and education outcomes.…”

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“…Authors estimate sibling correlations, among others, in monetary outcomes (e.g., Solon et al, 1991, Björklund et al, 2002, Mazumder, 2008, Schnitzlein, 2014, educational outcomes Salvanes, 2011, Nicoletti andRabe, 2013), and health outcomes (Mazumder, 2011) for the US, UK, Germany and Scandinavian countries. The results show substantial influence of shared family and neighborhood background over all outcomes, but also significant cross-country differences in the importance of the combined effect.…”

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Is it the Family or the Neighborhood? Evidence from Sibling and Neighbor Correlations in Youth Education and Health

Bügelmayer

Schnitzlein

2014

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research at DIW BerlinThis series presents research findings based either directly on data from the German SocioEconomic Panel Study (SOEP) or using SOEP data as part of an internationally comparable data set (e.g. CNEF, ECHP, LIS, LWS, CHER/PACO). SOEP is a truly multidisciplinary household panel study covering a wide range of social and behavioral sciences: economics, sociology, psychology, survey methodology, econometrics and applied statistics, educational science, political science, public health, behavioral genetics, demography, geography, and sport science.The decision to publish a submission in SOEPpapers is made by a board of editors chosen by the DIW Berlin to represent the wide range of disciplines covered by SOEP. There is no external referee process and papers are either accepted or rejected without revision. Papers appear in this series as works in progress and may also appear elsewhere. They often represent preliminary studies and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be requested from the author directly.Any opinions expressed in this series are those of the author(s) and not those of DIW Berlin.Research disseminated by DIW Berlin may include views on public policy issues, but the institute itself takes no institutional policy positions. AbstractIn this paper we present sibling and neighbor correlations in school grades and cognitive skills as well as indicators of physical and mental health for a sample of German adolescents. In a first step, we estimate sibling correlations and find substantial influence of shared family and community background on all outcomes. To further disentangle the influence of family background and neighborhood, we estimate neighbor correlations. Our results show that for all outcomes, estimated neighbor correlations are clearly lower than estimated sibling correlations. However, especially for cognitive skills and mental health, neighbor correlations are still substantial in relation to sibling correlations. Thus, compared to existing results from other countries, the influence of the neighborhood is not negligible in Germany for these outcomes. JEL codes: J62

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Is it the Family or the Neighborhood? Evidence from Sibling and Neighbor Correlations in Youth Education and Health

Bügelmayer

Schnitzlein

2014

SSRN Journal

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“…Only a few studies provide an estimate of the additive neighborhood contribution to a specified outcome. A study by Datcher (1982) put the value at 25 percent attributable to the neighborhood, but a study by Nicoletti and Rabe (2012) attributed about 10-15 percent of the difference in educational outcomes to neighborhood effects. Studying the likelihood of mobility, Clark and Ledwith (2007) suggest that less than 5 percent of the explanation for the likelihood of moving can be attributed to neighborhood characteristics.…”

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Residential mobility in context: Interpreting behavior in the housing market

Clark

2017

PapRevSoc

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Residential mobility is the process whereby individuals and households adjust their locations in cities. These moves, in the aggregate, change neighborhoods as well as providing specific housing outcomes for households and families as a result of the move. The literature on residential change has evolved from cross-sectional studies of family structure and their housing circumstances, to life course analyses of the motivations for moving, the contexts in which the moves occur, and the intersection of life course change and housing choice. The combined work of demographers, geographers, economists and sociologists has provided a much clearer and more nuanced understanding of behavior in the housing market than was possible with cross-sectional analyses. This paper reviews the evolution of life course approaches to residential mobility and discusses the current state of the research literature. Keywords: mobility; life course; housing markets; neighborhoods; residential sorting * Some of the material in this paper was originally prepared for a seminar on housing hosted Resumen. La movilidad residencial en su contexto: interpretar el comportamiento en el mercado residencialLa movilidad residencial es el proceso por el cual los individuos y hogares ajustan su localización en la ciudad. Estos cambios, de manera agregada, transforman los barrios al tiempo que producen efectos específicos sobre los hogares y las familias. La literatura sobre cambios de residencia ha evolucionado desde los planteamientos transversales sobre la estructura familiar y las condiciones de su domicilio hacia análisis desde la perspectiva del curso vital de las razones para mudarse, los contextos en que ocurren los cambios, y la intersección de los cambios vitales y la elección residencial. El trabajo combinado de demógrafos, geógrafos, economistas y sociólogos ha proporcionado una comprensión más clara y matizada de lo que era posible con análisis transversales. Este artículo revisa la evolución de los acercamientos a la movilidad residencial desde el curso vital, y debate el estado de la cuestión en la literatura de investigación.

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“…Among social interactions, siblings'ones are particularly interesting because, di¤erently from other peer interactions, they happen within the household and they are more intense and lasting. In fact, siblings have often been found to be the most in ‡uential peers (Lindahl, 2011, Nicoletti and Rabe, 2013and Dahl et al, 2014. This paper analyzes sibling e¤ects in the decision to form a new household, i.e., the impact of having a sibling who forms a new household in the same time period.…”

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Should I stay or should I go? Sibling effects in household formation

Fenoll

Oppedisano

2016

Rev Econ Household

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This paper analyzes peer e¤ects among siblings in the decision to leave parental home. Estimating peer e¤ects is challenging because of problems of re ‡ection, endogenous group formation, and correlated unobservables. We overcome these issues using the exogenous variation in siblings'household formation implied by the eligibility rules for a Spanish rental subsidy. Our results show that sibling e¤ects are negative and that these e¤ects can be explained by the presence of old or ill parents. Sibling e¤ects turn positive for close-in-age siblings, when imitation is more likely to prevail. Our …ndings indicate that policy makers who aim at fostering household formation should target the household rather than the individual and combine policies for young adults with policies for the elderly.JEL Codes: J1, H2, I3

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Inequality in Pupils' Test Scores: How Much do Family, Sibling Type and Neighbourhood Matter?

Cited by 58 publications

References 24 publications

Is it the Family or the Neighborhood? Evidence from Sibling and Neighbor Correlations in Youth Education and Health

Is it the Family or the Neighborhood? Evidence from Sibling and Neighbor Correlations in Youth Education and Health

Residential mobility in context: Interpreting behavior in the housing market

Should I stay or should I go? Sibling effects in household formation

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