Birth Spacing Effect on Children's Attainments: Indentification Using Instrument Variables

• Main Author: XIE, Jing
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2008
• Subjects: birth order; children; educational attainment; family structure; human capital; Behavioral Economics; Education
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/etd_coll/7; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1006&context=etd_coll
• Institution: Singapore Management University

In this study, I address the relationship between an often overlooked dimension of family structure--the spacing between children's births--and the degree of children's attainments such as Mathematics, Reading Cognition and Reading Comprehension. Comparing to the results of OLS estimation...