Table XI.

Next-Youngest Sister Effects on Marriage and Education Outside South Asia

	Age at marriage		Highest grade
	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)
	Cox HR	% married by age 16	OLS coef.	% w/ no school
Southeast Asia/Pacific (N = 116,178) (Cambodia, Indonesia, Philippines)	1.020	20	−0.021	15
	[0.0061]		[0.023]
Central Asia (N = 39,465) (Afghanistan)	1.083	29	0.016	73
	[0.015]		[0.040]
Middle East and North Africa (N = 22,986) (Jordan, Morocco)	1.058	18	0.002	53
	[0.016]		[0.056]
Latin America and the Caribbean (N = 167,237) (Bolivia, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Peru)	1.016	19	−0.004	8
	[0.0056]		[0.021]
Sub-Saharan Africa (N = 396,400) (Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, CAR, Chad, DRC, Congo, Côte D’Ivore, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, São Tomé & Príncipe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Zambia, Zimbabwe)	1.018	32	−0.028	46
	[0.0035]		[0.012]

Notes. Brackets contain standard errors clustered at the PSU level. Women born in the same year as a sibling, women with two next-youngest siblings born in the same year, and women with no younger siblings are excluded. The independent variable equals 1 for a next-youngest sister and 0 for a next-youngest brother. The Cox regressions stratify by birth order–by-country interactions, as well as control for spacing from the respondent’s birth, birth year dummies, and survey year dummies. The OLS regressions control for spacing from the respondent’s birth, birth year dummies, survey year dummies, and birth order–by-country interactions. Column (2) reports the fraction of women married before their 17th birthdays. All countries with DHS surveys containing sibling histories and age-at-marriage are included.