Inequality in Pupils’ Educational Attainment: how much do family, sibling type and neighbourhood matter?
| Title | Inequality in Pupils’ Educational Attainment: how much do family, sibling type and neighbourhood matter? |
| Author(s) | Cheti Nicoletti and Birgitta Rabe |
| Organisation | ISER at the University of Essex |
| Date | 2010 |
| No. of pages | 33 |
| Key words | Inequality; family networks; local networks; siblings; twins; learner attainment; educational attainment |
| Description | The researchers analysed how important the relative influences of family, sibling type and the neighbourhood are on learners’ attainment throughout their school lives. |
| Select quotations | “The neighbourhood explains at most 10-15% of the variance in educational attainment, whereas the family explains at least 43% “The percentage is significantly higher for twins and for siblings of the same sex. It is also higher for closely spaced siblings and siblings with a similar school starting age but only at age 11.” “We show that the upper bound on the proportion of variation in the pupil’s outcome explained by neighbourhood effects is higher for urban areas than for rural areas, suggesting that peer interaction which is presumably higher in urban areas is responsible for the effect.” |
| Link | www.iser.essex.ac.uk/publications/working-papers/iser/2010-26.pdf |
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