The intergenerational effects of birth order on education

Havari, Enkelejda; Savegnago, Marco

Document type :

Article dans une revue scientifique

DOI :

10.1007/s00148-020-00810-5

Title :

The intergenerational effects of birth order on education

Author(s) :

Havari, Enkelejda [Auteur]
Lille économie management - UMR 9221 [LEM]
Savegnago, Marco [Auteur]

Journal title :

Journal of Population Economics

Pages :

349-377

Publisher :

Springer Verlag

Publication date :

2022-01

ISSN :

0933-1433

English keyword(s) :

Intergenerational effects
Education
Birth order
Firstborn
Europe
SHARE

HAL domain(s) :

Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Economies et finances

English abstract : [en]

Abstract We study the intergenerational effect of birth order on educational attainment using rich data from different European countries included in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). The survey ...
Show more >Abstract We study the intergenerational effect of birth order on educational attainment using rich data from different European countries included in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). The survey allows us to link two or more generations in different countries. We use reduced-form models linking children’s education to parents’ education, controlling for a large number of characteristics measured at different points in time. We find that not only are parents who are themselves firstborns better educated, on average, but they also have more-educated children compared with laterborn parents (intergenerational effect). Results are stronger for mothers than for fathers, and for daughters than for sons. In terms of heterogeneous effects, we find that girls born to firstborn mothers have higher educational attainment than girls born to laterborn mothers. We do not find evidence for potential channels other than parental education that could explain the intergenerational effect of parental birth order.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Peer reviewed article :

Oui

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

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