We examine how the gender of a sibling affects earnings, education and family formation. Identification is complicated … with sisters obtain lower education and give birth earlier than women with brothers. Our analysis shows that the family …

Using information on family background, we estimate returns to education, allowing for the heterogeneity of returns. In … earn lower wages, but have higher returns to education. This supports the view that persons from less-educated backgrounds …

be valuable. Based on their work this study will investigate returns to education and its interdependence with family … education all over the world already exists, however, studies for Germany, and in particular studies that focuss on the relation … between income, education and social background, are rare. This study appears to be the first one following an …