TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Nicoletti, Cheti
AU  - Rabe, Birgitta
        TI  - Sibling Spillover Effects in School Achievement
        PY  - 2014/Nov/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 8615
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp8615
        AB  - We provide the first empirical evidence on direct sibling spillover effects in school achievement using English administrative data. Our identification strategy exploits the variation in school test scores across three subjects observed at age 11 and 16 and the variation in the composition of school mates between siblings. These two sources of variation have been separately used to identify school peer effects, but never in combination. By combining them we are able to identify a sibling spillover effect that is net of unobserved child, family and school characteristics shared by siblings. We find a modest spillover effect from the older sibling to the younger but not vice versa. This effect is considerably higher for siblings from deprived backgrounds, where sibling sharing of school knowledge might compensate for the lack of parental information.
        KW  - social interaction
KW  - peer effects
KW  - family effects
KW  - education
        ER  -