Table 5.
Sibling and Birth-Order Effects for Indian States
| State | Sibling Effecta |
Birth-Order Effectb |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Effect | t Statistic | Effect | t Statistic | |
| Andhra Pradesh | 0.04 | 1.16 | 0.03 | 4.92 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 0.10 | 1.17 | –0.08 | –1.29 |
| Assam | 0.11 | 2.35 | –0.04 | –1.24 |
| Bihar | 0.17 | 5.29 | –0.03 | –1.39 |
| Delhi | 0.14 | 3.31 | 0.06 | 1.99 |
| Goa | 0.12 | 1.77 | 0.04 | 0.87 |
| Gujrat | 0.20 | 5.53 | 0.12 | 4.42 |
| Haryana | 0.28 | 6.74 | 0.07 | 2.37 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 0.19 | 5.35 | 0.11 | 4.05 |
| Jammu and Kashmir | 0.12 | 2.75 | 0.11 | 3.29 |
| Karnataka | 0.08 | 2.42 | 0.07 | 2.54 |
| Kerala | 0.02 | 0.54 | 0.01 | 0.19 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 0.19 | 6.36 | 0.03 | 1.30 |
| Maharashtra | 0.15 | 5.41 | 0.11 | 5.25 |
| Manipur | 0.15 | 2.05 | 0.12 | 2.23 |
| Meghalaya | 0.07 | 0.65 | –0.09 | –1.04 |
| Mizoram | 0.05 | 0.62 | 0.10 | 1.64 |
| Nagaland | 0.09 | 0.83 | –0.06 | –0.81 |
| Orissa | 0.16 | 4.70 | 0.02 | 0.78 |
| Punjab | 0.18 | 5.10 | 0.21 | 7.48 |
| Rajashthan | 0.19 | 6.19 | 0.09 | 3.90 |
| Sikkim | 0.18 | 2.35 | 0.00 | 0.09 |
| Tamil Nadu | 0.06 | 2.11 | 0.06 | 2.63 |
| Tripura | 0.15 | 2.13 | 0.04 | 0.72 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 0.18 | 6.59 | 0.01 | 0.53 |
| West Bengal | 0.12 | 3.12 | 0.01 | 0.57 |
a
Sibling effect is measured according to Eq. (4) in the text.
b
For details of how the birth-order effect is measured, refer to Observation 2 in the text.