Les inégalités intra-familiales d’education en France

Nathalie Picard and François-Charles Wolff

No 2014-04, THEMA Working Papers from THEMA (THéorie Economique, Modélisation et Applications), Université de Cergy-Pontoise

Abstract: While intergenerational transmission of human capital has been widely documented by economists, less is known about differences in schooling between siblings. This paper proposes a measure of educational inequality in France using a sample of 27,197 children from 11,694 families. Estimation of ordered Probit models with random effects and application of variance decomposition allow making a distinction between educational inequalities between families and educational inequalities within families, among siblings. Results show that differences in schooling between families amount to about two-thirds of the total variance. Compared to their siblings, girls and first-born children are more educated.

JEL-codes: D13 I21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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Journal Article: Les inégalités intrafamiliales d'éducation en France (2014)
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Working Paper: Les inégalités intra-familiales d'éducation en France (2013)
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