Educational consequences of a sibling's disability: Evidence from type 1 diabetes

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  • Tine L.Mundbjerg Eriksen
  • Amanda P. Gaulke
  • Niels Skipper
  • Svensson, Jannet
  • Peter Thingholm
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.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
Artikelnummer102407
TidsskriftEconomics of Education Review
Vol/bind94
Antal sider13
ISSN0272-7757
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2023

Bibliografisk note

Funding Information:
This study has been funded by Independent Research Fund Denmark grant 8019-00055B . The study was approved by the Danish Data Protection Agency . The Danish Registry of Childhood and Adolescent Diabetes (DanDiabKids) was approved by the Danish Health Data Authority (file No. 14/915976 ). These approvals constitute the necessary legal requirements, and informed consent is not required. We thank the co-editor and anonymous referees for helpful comments and suggestions. We would also like to thank Chris Taber, Marianne Simonsen, David Slusky, Jeffrey Colvin, Claudia Persico, Rachel Childers, participants at the 2 nd annual Kansas Health Conference, participants at the Association of Education Finance and Policy 2021 conference, participants at the Southern Economics 2021 conference, and participants at ITPalooza – the culminating conference of the Interdisciplinary Training Program in Education Sciences at University of Wisconsin – Madison .

Funding Information:
This study has been funded by Independent Research Fund Denmark grant 8019-00055B. The study was approved by the Danish Data Protection Agency. The Danish Registry of Childhood and Adolescent Diabetes (DanDiabKids) was approved by the Danish Health Data Authority (file No. 14/915976). These approvals constitute the necessary legal requirements, and informed consent is not required. We thank the co-editor and anonymous referees for helpful comments and suggestions. We would also like to thank Chris Taber, Marianne Simonsen, David Slusky, Jeffrey Colvin, Claudia Persico, Rachel Childers, participants at the 2nd annual Kansas Health Conference, participants at the Association of Education Finance and Policy 2021 conference, participants at the Southern Economics 2021 conference, and participants at ITPalooza – the culminating conference of the Interdisciplinary Training Program in Education Sciences at University of Wisconsin – Madison.

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