Intra-family educational inequalities in France.

Summary While the intergenerational transmission of human capital has been extensively studied by economists, little is known about educational differences between siblings. This paper proposes a measure of educational heterogeneity between children for France based on a sample of 27197 children belonging to 11694 families. The estimation of ordered Probit models with random effects and the implementation of a variance decomposition allow us to distinguish between educational heterogeneity between families and educational heterogeneity within families, between brothers and sisters. The results indicate that educational heterogeneity between families accounts for nearly two-thirds of the total variability. Within siblings, girls and older siblings are relatively better educated.