手足效果對教育成就之影響

The Impacts of Siblings on Children's Education Attainment

陳筠婷(Yun-Ting Chen)

指導教授 ： 陳妍蒨

國立暨南國際大學/管理學院/經濟學系/碩士(2011年)

摘要

本文主要採用2000年全台普查資料，探討手足效果包括手足性別與手足教育程度對不同性別的孩子之影響，所採用的樣本為2至3個小孩家庭中最小的孩子(么子)。首先，我們發現孩子受老大的性別影響皆呈現顯著的負相關。無論在有兩個或三個孩子的家庭中，若老大為男性，則對么子有顯著的負面影響；而在三個孩子的家庭中，老二的性別對女性么子的教育程度較無影響。其次，由手足的教育成就對小孩有正向的影響。若老大繼續升學，則對手足的教育程度有顯著的正面影響。而在有三個孩子的家庭中，老二的教育程度對於么子的教育成就之影響幅度較老大來的大。另外，本文也發現女性樣本的升學的機會略高於男性樣本，此顯示女性的教育成就在近年已普遍超越男性。

關鍵字

手足效果 ； 性別 ； 教育成就

並列摘要

This paper uses 2000 census in Taiwan to discuss the impacts of sibling, including the effects of gender and educational attainment, on children’s educational attainment. The analysis samples are the youngest children in a family with two or three. First, we discover that having a firstborn brother is likely to decrease children’s educational attainment, no matter for family with two or three children; however, in the families with three children, the gender of second child has no significant impact on the educational attainment of youngest female children. Additionally, the educational attainment of sibling has positive effect on other sibling. Higher education on older siblings is related to higher education on younger children. And in the families with three children, the educational level of the second child has higher impact on educational attainment on the youngest child than the oldest child do. Moreover, this study also find that female’s opportunities to obtain higher education are slightly higher than male. This showed that the educational attainment of female has commonly got beyond of male.

並列關鍵字

sibling effect ； gender ； educational attainment

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