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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.

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