Setting a Good Example? Examining Sibling Spillovers in Educational Achievement Using a Regression Discontinuity Design / Krzysztof Karbownik, Umut Özek.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Karbownik, Krzysztof.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Özek, Umut.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w26411.

NBER working paper series no. w26411

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2019.

Summary:

Using a regression discontinuity design generated by school-entry cutoffs and school records from an anonymous district in Florida, we identify externalities in human capital production function arising from sibling spillovers. We find positive spillover effects from an older to a younger child in less affluent families and negative spillover effects from a younger to an older child in more affluent families. These results are consistent with direct spillovers dominating in economically disadvantaged families and with parental reinforcement in more affluent families.

Notes:

Print version record

October 2019.