Family networks and school choice

Dustan, Andrew

doi:10.1016/j.jdeveco.2018.06.004

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“…It is only recently that economists have begun to look at the causal effect of interactions between siblings on educational outcomes. For example, evidence on causal sibling spillover effects on high school graduation by age 19, years of schooling, and subject and school choices is provided by Oettinger (2000), Qureshi (2018a), Joensen and Nielsen (2017), and Dustan (2018).…”

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Sibling spillover effects in school achievement

Nicoletti

Rabe

2019

J of Applied Econometrics

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This paper provides empirical evidence on sibling spillover effects in school achievement using administrative data on 230,000 siblings in England. We extend previous strategies to identify peer effects by exploiting the variation in school test scores across subjects observed at ages 11 and 16 as well as variation in peer quality between siblings. We find a statistically significant positive spillover effect from the older to the younger sibling. Sibling spillovers account for a non-negligible proportion of the attainment gap between low-and higher income pupils in England.

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Sibling spillover effects in school achievement

Nicoletti

Rabe

2019

J of Applied Econometrics

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“…This literature has focused on the effects of sibling health status on educational outcomes (Black et al, 2017;Fletcher et al, 2012), on the effect of early health shocks on child human capital formation (Yi et al, 2015), on the effects of teen motherhood on their siblings' short and medium term human capital development (Heissel, 2017(Heissel, , 2019, on the effect of siblings on educational choices and early career earnings (Dustan, 2018;Joensen & Nielsen, 2018;Nicoletti & Rabe, 2019;Qureshi, 2018), and on the effects of health shocks to individuals on their family members consumption of preventive care (Fadlon & Nielsen, 2019).…”

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Family ties and child obesity in Italy

Crudu

Neri

Tiezzi

2021

Economics & Human Biology

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This paper examines the impact of overweight family members on weight outcomes of Italian children aged 6 to 14 years. We use an original dataset matching the 2012 cross sections of the Italian Multipurpose Household Survey and the Household Budget Survey. Since the identification of within-family peer effects is known to be challenging, we implement our analysis on a partially identified model using inferential procedures recently introduced in the literature and based on standard Bayesian computation methods. We find evidence of a strong, positive effect of both overweight peer children in the family and of overweight adults on children weight outcomes. The impact of overweight peer children in the household is larger than the impact of adults. In particular, the estimated confidence sets associated to the peer children variable is positive with upper bound around one or larger, while the confidence sets for the parameter associated to obese adults often include zero and have upper bound that rarely is larger than one.

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“…propensity to take such courses. Dustan (2018) uses randomness induced by Mexico City's high school assignment mechanism to show students prefer schools older siblings have attended. Most similar to this paper are two recent working papers exploiting discontinuities in Chilean, Croatian and Swedish admissions systems to estimate sibling spillovers in choice of degree and institutions (Aguirre and Matta, 2018;Altmejd et al, 2019).…”

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O Brother, Where Start Thou? Sibling Spillovers in College Enrollment

Goodman¹,

Hurwitz²,

Mulhern³

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We study within-family spillovers in college enrollment to show college-going behavior is transmissible between peers. Because siblings' test scores are weakly correlated, we exploit college-specific admissions thresholds that directly affect older but not younger siblings' college options. Older siblings' admissibility substantially increases their own four-year college enrollment rate and quality of college attended. Their improved college choices in turn raise younger siblings' college enrollment rate and quality of college chosen, particularly for families with low predicted probabilities of college enrollment. Some younger siblings follow their older sibling to the same campus but many upgrade by choosing other colleges. The observed spillovers are not well-explained by price, income, proximity or legacy effects, but are most consistent with older siblings transmitting otherwise unavailable information about the college experience and its potential returns. The importance of such personally salient information may partly explain persistent differences in college-going rates by income, geography and other characteristics that define a community. AbstractWe study within-family spillovers in college enrollment to show college-going behavior is transmissible between peers. Because siblings' test scores are weakly correlated, we exploit college-specific admissions thresholds that directly affect older but not younger siblings' college options. Older siblings' admissibility substantially increases their own four-year college enrollment rate and quality of college attended. Their improved college choices in turn raise younger siblings' college enrollment rate and quality of college chosen, particularly for families with low predicted probabilities of college enrollment. Some younger siblings follow their older sibling to the same campus but many upgrade by choosing other colleges. The observed spillovers are not well-explained by price, income, proximity or legacy effects, but are most consistent with older siblings transmitting otherwise unavailable information about the college experience and its potential returns. The importance of such personally salient information may partly explain persistent differences in college-going rates by income, geography and other characteristics that define a community.

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Family networks and school choice

Cited by 26 publications

References 44 publications

Sibling spillover effects in school achievement

Sibling spillover effects in school achievement

Family ties and child obesity in Italy

O Brother, Where Start Thou? Sibling Spillovers in College Enrollment

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