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Understanding Sibling Correlations in Education: Molecular Genetics and Family Background

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Sibling correlations in socioeconomic status are one of the key measures of equality of opportunity and social mobility, providing an omnibus examination of the importance of family background. Typically, these correlations are interpreted as the combined effects of shared sibling background and experiences, including genetics and family environments. The UK Biobank allows us to specifically control for sibling and parental genetics (polygenic scores, PGS) in order to gauge their relative importance compared with broader family background effects. We use >17,000 sibling pairs from the UK Biobank in order to further decompose standard sibling correlations of educational attainment found in the literature. In general, we find modest (up to 20%) contributions of molecular genetics to the similarity of sibling outcomes, suggesting a large amount of the observed similarity in sibling educational outcomes are due to parents and environments of children.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 15862

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Thema
sibling correlations
educational mobility
genetics

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Fletcher, Jason M.
Lu, Qiongshi
Mazumder, Bhashkar
Song, Jie
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2023

Handle
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Fletcher, Jason M.
  • Lu, Qiongshi
  • Mazumder, Bhashkar
  • Song, Jie
  • Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2023

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