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Socioeconomic achievements of siblings in the life course
— new findings from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study | | Author(s) | Robert M Hauser, Jennifer T Sheridan, John Robert Warren |
| Journal title | Research on Aging, vol 21, no 2 (special issue: Multilevel models), March 1999 |
| Pages | pp 338-378 |
| Keywords | Socio-economic groups ; Economic status [elderly] ; Siblings ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Data for more than 4,500 pairs of sisters and brothers from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS) from 1957 to the early 1990s has been analysed for occupational standing across the life course. The analysis is based on structural equation models of sibling resemblance. The models estimate the effects of social background, cognitive ability and schooling - both within and between families - across the life course of women and men. Across families, educational attainment levels are determined largely by cognitive ability and, to a lesser extent, by social background. Family levels of occupational standing are determined largely by family education levels. Within families, cognitive ability also affects occupational standing primarily through schooling. Occupational inequalities and the effects of educational attainment on these inequalities both tend to decline across the life course. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990318208 A |
| Classmark | T4: F:W: SV: 3J: 7T |
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