Butcher, Kristin F; Case, Anne - In: The Quarterly Journal of Economics 109 (1994) 3, pp. 531-63
This paper documents the impact of siblings on the education of men and women born in the United States between 1920 and 1965. We examine the effect of the number and sex composition of a boy or girl's siblings on that child's educational attainment. We find that throughout the century women's...