The intergenerational effects of birth order on education

Havari, Enkelejda; Savegnago, Marco

Type de document :

Article dans une revue scientifique

DOI :

10.1007/s00148-020-00810-5

Titre :

The intergenerational effects of birth order on education

Auteur(s) :

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

Titre de la revue :

Journal of Population Economics

Pagination :

349-377

Éditeur :

Springer Verlag

Date de publication :

2022-01

ISSN :

0933-1433

Mot(s)-clé(s) en anglais :

Intergenerational effects
Education
Birth order
Firstborn
Europe
SHARE

Discipline(s) HAL :

Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Economies et finances

Résumé en anglais : [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 ...
Lire la suite >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.Lire moins >

Langue :

Anglais

Comité de lecture :

Oui

Audience :

Internationale

Vulgarisation :

Non

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