The declining influence of family background on educational attainment in Australia: The role of measured and unmeasured influences |
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| Institution: | 1. Office of Government, Policy & Strategy, Australian Catholic University, 115 Victoria Parade, Fitzroy Victoria 3065, Australia;2. School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia;1. University of Miami, United States;2. Ohio State University, United States;1. Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA;2. Carman and Ann Adams Department of Pediatrics, Prevention Research Center, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, USA;3. Guangxi Center for Diseases Control and Prevention, Nanning, Guangxi, China;4. Department of Allied Health Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA;1. Department of Physics, College of Sciences, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110004, China;2. Center for High Energy Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100080, China;1. Waseda Institute for Advanced Study, Waseda University, Japan;2. Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University, Japan;3. Preparatory Office for the Faculty of International Social Sciences, Gakushuin University, Japan |
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| Abstract: | The paper examines changes in the influence of family background, including socioeconomic and social background variables on educational attainment in Australia for cohorts born between 1890 and 1982. We test hypotheses from modernization theory on sibling data using random effects models and find: (i) substantial declines in the influence of family background on educational attainment (indicated by the sibling intraclass correlations); (ii) declines in the effects of both economic and cultural socioeconomic background variables; (iii) changes in the effects of some social background variables (e.g., family size); (iv) and declines in the extent that socioeconomic and social background factors account for variation in educational attainment. Unmeasured family background factors are more important, and proportionally increasingly so, for educational attainment than the measured socioeconomic and social background factors analyzed. Fixed effects models showed steeper declines in the effects of socioeconomic background variables than in standard analyses suggesting that unmeasured family factors associated with socioeconomic background obscure the full extent of the decline. |
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| Keywords: | Educational inequality Siblings Socioeconomic background Family background Sibling studies Intraclass correlations for education |
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