Table 3.

Sibling and Birth-Order Effects for Asia and North Africa

Country	Survey Datea	Sample Size	Sibling Effectb		Birth-Order Effectc
			Effect	t Statistic	Effect	t Statistic
Asia
Bangladesh	1999–2000	10,544	0.07	2.62	0.04	2.36
India	1998–1999	90,303	0.13	14.93	0.03	4.92
Indonesia	2002–2003	29,483	0.00	0.83	0.03	2.81
Nepal	2001	8,726	0.18	6.57	0.03	1.61
Pakistan	1990–1991	6,611	0.06	1.33	–0.05	–1.46
Philippines	2003	13,633	0.03	1.15	–0.01	–0.57
Sri Lanka	1987	5,865	0.04	1.33	0.02	0.65
Thailand	1987	6,775	0.03	0.82	0.00	0.08
North Africa
Egypt	2000	15,573	0.06	2.92	0.04	2.86
Morocco	2003	16,798	0.04	1.43	–0.02	–1.07

^aData for this analysis come from the Demographic and Health Surveys.

^bSibling effect is measured according to Eq. (4) in the text.

^cFor details of how the birth-order effect is measured, refer to Observation 2 in the text.