than half of the inequality in cognition can be explained by family background. Comparing these findings with those in the … family on children’s cognitive and non-cognitive skills, as confirmed by decomposition analyses and in line with previous …This paper estimates sibling correlations in cognitive and non-cognitive skills to evaluate the importance of family …

intergenerational correlations are only able to capture parts of the influence of the family on children s cognitive and non … family background for skill formation. The study is based on a large representative German dataset, which includes IQ test … Maximum Likelihood (REML) model we find substantial influences of family background on the skills of both brothers and sisters …