Torkild Lyngstad
Department of Sociology and Human Geography
University of Oslo
Harriet Holters hus
Moltke Moesvei 31
0851 OSLO, NORWAY
E-Mail: t.h.lyngstad@sosgeo.uio.no
Institutional Affiliation: Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo
NBER Working Papers and Publications
| April 2018 | The Production of Inequalities within Families and Across Generations: The Intergenerational Effects of Birth Order and Family Size on Educational Attainment
with Kieron Barclay, Dalton Conley: w24530
There has long been interest in the extent to which effects of social stratification extend and persist across generations. We take a novel approach to this question by asking whether birth order and sibling group size in the parental generation influences the educational attainment of their children. To address this question we use Swedish population data on cohorts born 1960-1982. To study the effects of parental birth order and family size we apply a cousin fixed effects design and exploit information on twin births in the parents generation. Relative to having a first-born mother, having a second-born or fifth-born mother is associated with educational attainment at age 30 being 4% and 8% of a standard deviation lower, respectively. After adjusting for attained parental education and s... |
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