Sibship Size Effects

Out now at Population Research and Policy Review with Christina Diaz (Rice University), “When Size Matters: IV Estimates of Sibship Size on Educational Attainment in the U.S.” (pre-print version). We use multiple (twin) birth events as natural experiments to detect sibship size effects on older siblings. We don’t find much until the addition of a fifth sibling.


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