The effect of sibship size on educational attainment of the first born: evidence from three decennial censuses of Taiwan

The casual effect of fertility: The multiple problems with instrumental variables for the number of children in families

“…36 Recent applications include: Cools and Hart (2017), , Kugler and Kumar (2017), Li et al (2017), Dasgupta andSolomon (2018), Angelov et al (2019), Chan et al (2019), Hart and Cools (2019), Kleven et al (2019), Nguyen (2019, Briole et al (2020), Chen et al (2020), Diaz and Fiel (2020), Priebe (2020), van den Broek (2020), van den Broek and Tosi (2020), Aaronson et al (2021), Chen (2021), Dehejia et al (2021), and.…”

Comparison of educational performance between the only children and children in two-child families

“…Some evidence 9 , 10 supports that this effect on children can be evidenced both immediately and over time. Using a provincial sample, Chen et al 11 indicated that sibship size has significant effects on decreasing high school and college enrollment. However, Åslund and Grönqvist’s 12 study showed that sibship size was a minor but significant negative impact on grades in compulsory and secondary school among children who might be vulnerable to further restriction of parental investment.…”

“…Most previous literature obtained causal estimates by looking at multiple births. They usually estimated the effects of family size from 2 to 3 (such as 3 , 23 or 3 to 4 11 . However, it is less clear what happens when the family size goes from 1 to 2.…”