Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/272615 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 15988
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
While there is a growing literature on family health spillovers, questions remain about how sibling disability status impacts educational outcomes. As disability is not randomly assigned this is an empirical challenge. In this paper we use Danish administrative data and variation in the onset of type 1 diabetes to compare education outcomes of focal children with a disabled sibling to outcomes of focal children without a disabled sibling (matched on date of birth of the focal child, sibling spacing and family size). We find that having a disabled sibling significantly decreases 9th grade exit exam GPAs, while having no impact on on-time completion of 9th grade. However, educational trajectories are impacted, as we find significant decreases in high school enrollment and significant increases in vocational school enrollment by age 18. Our results indicate that sibling disability status can generate economically meaningful inequality in educational outcomes.
Subjects: 
sibling spillovers
health
diabetes
educational performance
SES
JEL: 
I1
I2
J1
Document Type: 
Working Paper

Files in This Item:
File
Size
1.12 MB





Items in EconStor are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.