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Family Characteristics and the Returns to Schooling: Evidence on Gender Differences from a Sample of Australian Twins
Author(s) -
Miller Paul,
Mulvey Charles,
Martin Nick
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
economica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.532
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1468-0335
pISSN - 0013-0427
DOI - 10.1111/1468-0335.00067
Subject(s) - inequality , demography , sample (material) , demographic economics , economics , sociology , mathematical analysis , chemistry , mathematics , chromatography
Data from the Australian Twins Survey are analysed in order to compare the relative importance of the role of family background as a mediating influence on the relationship between schooling and income for males and females. The analysis reveals that family background is a considerably greater influence on males than on females. This finding is consistent with a greater screening role for education in the case of females and with a process of intergenerational transmission of inequality for males but not for females.