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Sibling similarity in family formation
Raab, Marcel
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Fasang, Anette Eva
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Karhula, Aleksi
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Erola, Jani
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URL:
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https://epc2014.princeton.edu/papers/140957
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Additional URL:
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https://epc2014.princeton.edu/abstracts/140957
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Document Type:
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Conference or workshop publication
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Year of publication:
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2014
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Book title:
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European Population Conference 2014 : 25-28 June 2014, Budapest, Hungary
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The title of a journal, publication series:
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Proceedings of the European Population Conference / Council of Europe
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Volume:
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2014
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Page range:
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1-45
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Conference title:
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EPC 2014
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Location of the conference venue:
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Budapest, Hungary
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Date of the conference:
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25.-28.06.2014
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Publisher:
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Billari, Francesco
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Place of publication:
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The Hague
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Publishing house:
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European Association for Population Studies (EAPS)
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Publication language:
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English
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Institution:
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School of Social Sciences > Bildungs- u. Familiensoziologie (Juniorprofessur) (Raab 2015-2020)
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Subject:
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150 Psychology
300 Social sciences, sociology, anthropology
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Abstract:
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Sibling studies have been widely used to analyze the impact of family background on socioeconomic and, to a lesser extent, demographic outcomes. We contribute to this literature with a novel research design that combines sibling comparisons and sequence analysis to analyze longitudinal family formation trajectories of siblings and unrelated persons. This allows us to scrutinize in a more rigorous way, whether there is sibling similarity in family formation trajectories and if siblings’ shared background characteristics, such as parental education and early childhood family structure can account for similarity in family formation. We use Finnish register data from 1987 until 2007 to construct complete longitudinal family formation trajectories in young adulthood for siblings and unrelated dyads (N=14,259 dyads). Findings show that siblings’ family formation is moderately but significantly more similar than for unrelated dyads, also after controlling for crucial parental background characteristics. Shared parental background characteristics add surprisingly little to account for sibling similarity in family formation. Instead of shared parental background, gender and the respondents’ own education are more decisive forces in the stratification of family formation. Yet family internal dynamics seem to reinforce this stratification, such that siblings have a higher probability to experience similar family formation patterns. Particularly patterns that go along with economic disadvantage are concentrated within families. This is in line with a growing body of research highlighting the importance of family structure in the reproduction of social inequality.
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Additional information:
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Online-Ressource
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Raab, Marcel
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Fasang, Anette Eva
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Karhula, Aleksi
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Erola, Jani
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Raab, Marcel
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Fasang, Anette Eva
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Karhula, Aleksi
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Erola, Jani
ORCID:
Raab, Marcel  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3097-1591, Fasang, Anette Eva, Karhula, Aleksi and Erola, Jani
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