Is it the family or the neighborhood? Evidence from sibling and neighbor correlations in youth education and health

verfasst von

Elisabeth Bügelmayer, Daniel D. Schnitzlein

Abstract

In this paper, we present sibling and neighbor correlations in school grades and cognitive skills, as well as indicators of physical and mental health, for a sample of German adolescents. In a first step, we estimate sibling correlations and find a substantial influence of shared family and community background on all outcomes. To further disentangle the influence of family background and neighborhood, we estimate neighbor correlations. Our results show that for all outcomes, the estimated neighbor correlations are clearly lower than the estimated sibling correlations. However, especially for cognitive skills and mental health, neighbor correlations are still substantial in relation to sibling correlations. Thus, compared to existing results from other countries, the influence of the neighborhood on these outcomes is not negligible in Germany.

Organisationseinheit(en)

Institut für Arbeitsökonomik

Externe Organisation(en)

Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung e.V. (DIW Berlin)

Typ

Artikel

Journal

Journal of economic inequality

Band

16

Seiten

369-388

Anzahl der Seiten

20

ISSN

1569-1721

Publikationsdatum

09.2018

Publikationsstatus

Veröffentlicht

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Soziologie und Politikwissenschaften, Volkswirtschaftslehre, Ökonometrie und Finanzen (insg.), Organisationslehre und Personalmanagement

Ziele für nachhaltige Entwicklung

SDG 3 – Gute Gesundheit und Wohlergehen

Elektronische Version(en)

http://www.diw.de/documents/publikationen/73/diw_01.c.492483.de/diw_sp0716.pdf (Zugang: Offen)
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10888-017-9364-8 (Zugang: Geschlossen)