results. We contribute to this discussion by addressing the role of sibling rivalry in educational attainment in Germany …

results. We contribute to this discussion by addressing the role of sibling rivalry in educational attainment in Germany …

results. We contribute to this discussion by addressing the role of sibling rivalry in educational attainment in Germany …

Using information on family background, we estimate returns to education, allowing for the heterogeneity of returns. In … order to control for the unobserved heterogeneity shared by family members, we construct a siblings sample and employ family … fixed-effects and family correlated random-effects models. Our main result is that family background still matters despite …

. Assuming that academic competition is fair and that individual talent is equally distributed by gender, we suggest that the … gender gap evident in degree scores is endogenously due to the greater effort exerted by female students. The rationale for … this is that academic tournaments are uneven by gender due to the higher labour market incremental returns to female …

individual educational achievement, employment and earnings vary with individual family characteristics such as the gender of …We use Danish register data to investigate whether the effects of schoolmates' gender and average parental education on …