Sibling Differences in Genetic Propensity for Education: How Do Parents React?
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Title: | Sibling Differences in Genetic Propensity for Education: How Do Parents React? |
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Authors: | Sanz-de-Galdeano, Anna | Terskaya, Anastasia |
Research Group/s: | Economía Laboral y Econometría (ELYE) |
Center, Department or Service: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico |
Keywords: | Intra-household allocation of resources | Educational polygenic index | Parental investments | Add Health |
Issue Date: | 12-Apr-2023 |
Publisher: | MIT Press |
Citation: | The Review of Economics and Statistics. 2023. https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_01326 |
Abstract: | We take advantage of recent advances in genomics to revisit a classic question in economics: how do parents respond to children's endowments and to sibling differences in endowments? We use an index based on DNA, which is fixed at conception and assigned randomly across siblings, as a proxy for educational endowments. We find that parents of nontwins display inequality aversion: given the absolute endowment level of one child, they invest less in him/her if his/her sibling has a lower genetic predisposition to education. In contrast, we find no evidence that parents of dizygotic twins react to endowment differences between children. |
Sponsor: | Project PID2021-124237NB-I00 financed by MCIN/ AEI /10.13039/501100011033/ and by FEDER, Una manera de hacer Europa; and from Project CIPROM/2021/068 financed by Consellería de Innovación, Universidades, Ciencia y Sociedad Digital. Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness Grant PID2020-120589RA-I00. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/135829 |
ISSN: | 0034-6535 (Print) | 1530-9142 (Online) |
DOI: | 10.1162/rest_a_01326 |
Language: | eng |
Type: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Rights: | © 2023 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license. |
Peer Review: | si |
Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_01326 |
Appears in Collections: | INV - ELYE - Artículos de Revistas |
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