Family Compositional Effects on the First Child’s Education, OLS
| Firstborn Female | Firstborn Male | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Controls | Controls | No Controls | Controls | |||||||||
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | (6) | (7) | (8) | (9) | (10) | (11) | (12) | |
| Y = High school completion | 0.246 | 0.246 | 0.239 | 0.239 | ||||||||
| A next brother (D) | 0.0037 (0.0013)* | −0.0224 (0.0014)* | −0.0189 (0.0023)* | 0.0018 (0.0012) | −0.0019 (0.0013) | 0.0047 (0.0022)* | −0.0018 (0.0013) | −0.0092 (0.0013)* | −0.0082 (0.0019)* | −0.0028 (0.0012)* | −0.0045 (0.0012)* | −0.0016 (0.0017) |
| Morethan2 (M) | −0.1183 (0.0014)* | −0.1150 (0.0022)* | −0.0170 (0.0014)* | −0.0109 (0.0021)* | −0.1161 (0.0013) | −0.1150 (0.0018)* | −0.0278 (0.0013)* | −0.0245 (0.0018)* | ||||
| A next brother (D) × Morethan2 (M) | −0.0059 (0.0029)* | −0.0109 (0.0027)* | −0.0022 (0.0025) | −0.0065 (0.0024)* | ||||||||
| Y = University Admission | 0.177 | 0.177 | 0.153 | 0.153 | ||||||||
| A next brother (D) | 0.0038 (0.0012)* | −0.0159 (0.0012)* | −0.0140 (0.0021)* | 0.0023 (0.0011)* | −0.0007 (0.0011) | 0.0042 (0.0020)* | 0.0013 (0.0011) | −0.0036 (0.0011)* | −0.0025 (0.0016) | 0.0006 (0.0010) | −0.0006 (0.0010) | 0.0018 (0.0015) |
| Morethan2 (M) | −0.0894 (0.0013)* | −0.0876 (0.0020)* | −0.0133 (0.0013)* | −0.0087 (0.0019)* | −0.0767 (0.0011)* | −0.0754 (0.0015)* | −0.0182 (0.0011)* | −0.0155 (0.0015)* | ||||
| A next brother (D) × Morethan2 (M) | −0.0032 (0.0026) | −0.0083 (0.0024)* | −0.0025 (0.0021) | −0.0053 (0.0021)* | ||||||||
Notes: This table reports the OLS results of how the firstborn’s education is associated with the sex of the secondborn (D), having more than two children (M), and their interaction. We also report in Appendix Table A5 the corresponding results with M being measured by sibsize. We include 416,315 firstborn females and 434,729 firstborn males born between 1978 and 1984 who have at least one sibling. We control for the full set of dummies for urban, the subject’s age and district of birth, parents’ education and years of birth, and mother’s age at the first birth. The sample mean of the educational outcome (Y) is in italics, and robust standard errors are in parentheses.