Table 1.

Counterfactual Projected Decrease in Indian NNM, if it were to Match the Birth-Order Gradient in the Rest of the Developing World.

Method	Note	Equal weights	Sample weights
Mean differences	Full sample	8.1	8.6
Mean differences	Restricted sample	9.8	10.0
Regression	Mother FEs & controls	10.6	10.9
Regression	Sibsize controls only	11.1	11.2

Notes: The table presents eight alternative estimates of the counterfactual decrease in India’s NNM from matching the rest of the world’s NNM gradient in birth order, while holding constant the average NNM among the last-born children of each sibsize. The purpose is to summarise the magnitude of the effect that we document (not to evaluate any actual policy proposal). For full details of the computation, see Section 6. The second row uses the restricted sample (described in Section 2), which excludes births to mothers whose last birth was within five years of the survey. The estimates in the third and fourth rows use the main DHS sample of births.