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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Sci Res. 2012 Mar 3;41(4):876–887. doi: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2012.02.008

Table 4.

Partial Effects of Sibling-Configuration Variables on Expected Values of Model Outcomes

Sibling-configuration variables:
 Total family size
One
Two
Three
 Birth order: 1 1 2 1 2 1 2 3
 Number of brothers: 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1
 Number of sisters: 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1

Partial Effects
 Prob. (college = 1) × 100 80.1 78.1 74.2 77.0 74.8 74.1 70.1 68.3
 Total payments $13,381 $11,642 $11,238 $12,002 $12,184 $10,068 $9,680 $9,606
 Total payments|college=l $16,708 $14,913 $15,141 $15,582 $16,286 $13,588 $13,806 $14,068
 Total payments|payments > 0 $21,305 $19,891 $20,008 $20,370 $20,855 $18,750 $18,933 $19,134

Note: all variables other than those representing sibling configuration held constant at sample mean.