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Title: Gender Differences in Family Effects on Human Capital and Earnings: An Empirical Study of Siblings
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1. Neumark, David B.
Gender Differences in Family Effects on Human Capital and Earnings: An Empirical Study of Siblings
In: Applied Behavioural Economics. S. Maital, ed. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1988
Cohort(s): Young Men, Young Women
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Keyword(s): Earnings; Family Influences; Gender Differences; Human Capital Theory; Pairs (also see Siblings); Siblings

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This essay studies the role of the family in determining earnings and various dimensions or measures of human capital, focusing in particular on gender differences in this process. Using data on siblings from the Young Men and Young Women cohorts of the NLS, the paper estimates and compares the magnitude of family influence on the accumulated amount of human capital and earnings of their children. The study finds that: (1) families do affect the earnings of their children; (2) the "symmetry" of family effects on the human capital of men and women is called into question once experience is added to the model; (3) family effects differ by gender; and (4) Schackett's (1981) original finding of correlated wage equation residuals, at least for male sibling pairs, still remains an unexplained empirical puzzle.
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Neumark, David B. "Gender Differences in Family Effects on Human Capital and Earnings: An Empirical Study of Siblings" In: Applied Behavioural Economics. S. Maital, ed. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1988