Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0

Author-Name: Marco Bertoni
Author-X-Name-First: Marco
Author-X-Name-Last: Bertoni

Author-Name: Giorgio Brunello
Author-X-Name-First: Giorgio
Author-X-Name-Last: Brunello

Author-Name: Lorenzo Cappellari
Author-X-Name-First: Lorenzo 
Author-X-Name-Last: Cappellari
Author-Email: lorenzo.cappellari@unicatt.it
Author-Workplace-Name: Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Author-Workplace-Name: Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore




Title: Parents, Siblings and Schoolmates. The Effects of Family-School Interactions on Educational Achievement and Long-term Labor Market Outcomes.


Abstract: We investigate whether the effects of schoolmates’ gender and average parental
education on educational achievement, employment and earnings vary with individual
family characteristics such as the gender of siblings and own parental education. We
find that the benefits from exposure to “privileged” peers accrue mainly to
“disadvantaged” students and decline when the dispersion of parental education in the
school increases. We also show that boys with sisters who are exposed to a higher share
of girls at school have poorer employment prospects. The opposite is true for girls who
have sisters. Overall, the size of the estimated effects is small.
Length: 53
Creation-Date: 2018-01
File-URL: http://dipartimenti.unicatt.it/economia-finanza-def064.pdf
File-Format: Application/pdf
File-Function: First version, 2018
Number: def064
Classification-JEL: I21, J16, J24. 
Keywords: education peer effects, gender, parental background, human capital
production, long term outcomes.
Handle: RePEc:ctc:serie1:def064