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Original Articles

The effect of birth order on schooling in India

Pages 1325-1328 | Published online: 16 Mar 2016
 

ABSTRACT

Using large nationally representative data, I estimate the effect of birth order on educational outcomes of children in India. To establish causality, endogeneity of family size is addressed by approaching an instrumental variable method. Employing a district fixed effects model and proportion of boys in the family as the instrument for number of children, I show that later-born children attain higher education compared to earlier-born children. Results are robust to inclusion of child, parents and household characteristics.

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Notes

1 Panel A also reports F-statistics for weak identification tests. The null hypothesis of weak instrument is rejected: The F-statistics are greater than 10.

2 Kugler and Kumar (Citation2015) show no evidence of sex-selective abortions at first parity in India.

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