Young people’s early education and employment trajectories (EET) hold profound implications for perpetuating or alleviating social inequalities across the life course. Considerable evidence indicates that family background, including dimensions like socioeconomic status and ethnicity, plays an instrumental role in shaping these trajectories. However, we have little understanding of how similar or different these trajectories are between siblings and which early adolescent experiences affect individual trajectories, after accounting for parental background. By using unique data from the UK Household Longitudinal Study which allows to follow siblings from adolescent years into their transition to adulthood, this paper explored which early adolescent experiences (10-15) influence differences in education and employment of siblings in late adolescence (16-19) for individuals born between 1993-2002. Specifically, this study looks at the role of family characteristics, including parental background and family type, as well as individual experiences, such as personal educational aspirations and mental health.

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