This study uses sibling correlation to provide novel descriptive evidence of parental and household characteristics on three different risk domains collected in a nationally representative survey from Burkina Faso. The sibling correlations are between 0.51 and 0.83. The correlations are higher in the general risk domain compared to risk taking in financial matters and traffic. Moreover, the sibling correlation is higher for sisters than brothers. We also explore which factors might drive these correlations; parents’ risk attitudes appears to play a role in explaining these correlations, whereas socioeconomic outcomes, family structure, parental health and residential zone seems to have only a limited contribution. We also find that gender seems to be important in explaining the variation in sibling correlations. Mother’s appear to have a stronger contribution on daughters than their sons correlation, whereas father’s help to explain their sons correlation.

这项研究使用同级相关性，以从布基纳法索的一项全国代表性调查中收集的三个不同风险域上提供的父母和家庭特征的新颖描述性证据。同级相关性介于0.51和0.83之间。与财务和业务风险承担相比，一般风险域中的相关性更高。此外，姐妹的兄弟姐妹相关性高于兄弟姐妹。我们还探讨了哪些因素可能导致这些相关性；父母的冒险态度似乎在解释这些相关性中发挥了作用，而社会经济成果，家庭结构，父母健康和居住区似乎只起到了有限的作用。我们还发现，性别对于解释同级相关性的变化似乎很重要。