Sibling correlations in terms of education, profession and earnings, in France

Céline Lecavelier des Etangs-Levallois and Arnaud Lefranc

No 2017-12, THEMA Working Papers from THEMA (THéorie Economique, Modélisation et Applications), Université de Cergy-Pontoise

Abstract: This paper examines the contribution of family background to inequality in France by estimating sibling correlations in various measures of socio-economic success. Compared to often reported measures of intergenerational elasticity, the sibling correlation in socio-economic outcomes allows to capture a broader set of family influences. We use data from the French Education-Training-Employment (FQP) survey to investigate similarities between siblings in education, social prestige and earnings. We also investigate trends over time in sibling correlations and differences across family types in siblings' characteristics. Our results indicate a high degree of association in siblings' socio-economic success. The correlation is around 0.3 and 0.5 respectively for social prestige and years of education. The sibling correlation in annual earnings is around 0.4. All in all, this indicates that estimates of the intergenerational elasticity lead to underestimate the role of family background in children's success in France.

Keywords: sibling correlations; intergenerational mobility; family background (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 J62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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