Sibling spillovers in educational achievement: evidence from Tanzania

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Autor(a) principal: Ferreira, João Pedro Ramos
Data de Publicação: 2023
Tipo de documento: Dissertação
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/156161
Resumo: Sibling spillovers have been increasingly documented in several domains, but the effect of older siblings’ educational achievement on one’s academic success has received less attention in applied research. Evidence from developing countries is particularly scarce. I use multiyear data on national exam scores from Tanzania to estimate sibling spillover effects from passing the PSLE, a high-stakes test that determines eligibility to enroll in government-run secondary schools. Exploiting this discontinuity in exposure to schooling opportunities around the passing score, I find no conclusive evidence of sibling spillovers. This result is robust to the consideration of possible heterogeneity by sibling gender match.
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Sibling spillovers in educational achievement: evidence from Tanzania
title Sibling spillovers in educational achievement: evidence from Tanzania
spellingShingle Sibling spillovers in educational achievement: evidence from Tanzania
Ferreira, João Pedro Ramos
Sibling spillovers
Sibling-dependency
Peer effects
Educational achievement
Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão
title_short Sibling spillovers in educational achievement: evidence from Tanzania
title_full Sibling spillovers in educational achievement: evidence from Tanzania
title_fullStr Sibling spillovers in educational achievement: evidence from Tanzania
title_full_unstemmed Sibling spillovers in educational achievement: evidence from Tanzania
title_sort Sibling spillovers in educational achievement: evidence from Tanzania
author Ferreira, João Pedro Ramos
author_facet Ferreira, João Pedro Ramos
author_role author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Sandholtz, Wayne
RUN
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Ferreira, João Pedro Ramos
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Sibling spillovers
Sibling-dependency
Peer effects
Educational achievement
Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão
topic Sibling spillovers
Sibling-dependency
Peer effects
Educational achievement
Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão
description Sibling spillovers have been increasingly documented in several domains, but the effect of older siblings’ educational achievement on one’s academic success has received less attention in applied research. Evidence from developing countries is particularly scarce. I use multiyear data on national exam scores from Tanzania to estimate sibling spillover effects from passing the PSLE, a high-stakes test that determines eligibility to enroll in government-run secondary schools. Exploiting this discontinuity in exposure to schooling opportunities around the passing score, I find no conclusive evidence of sibling spillovers. This result is robust to the consideration of possible heterogeneity by sibling gender match.
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