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Family Characteristics and the Returns to Schooling: Evidence on Gender Differences from a Sample of Australian Twins

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  • Paul Miller
  • Charles Mulvey
  • Nick Martin

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Data from the Australian Twins Survey are analysed in order to compare the relative importance of the role of family background as a mediating influence on the relationship between schooling and income for males and females. The analysis reveals that family background is a considerably greater influence on males than on females. This finding is consistent with a greater screening role for education in the case of females and with a process of intergenerational transmission of inequality for males but not for females.

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  • Paul Miller & Charles Mulvey & Nick Martin, 1997. "Family Characteristics and the Returns to Schooling: Evidence on Gender Differences from a Sample of Australian Twins," Economica, London School of Economics and Political Science, vol. 64(253), pages 119-136, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:econom:v:64:y:1997:i:253:p:119-136
    DOI: 10.1111/1468-0335.00067
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