Table VII.

Next-Youngest Sister Effects on Parental Coresidence and Marriage, Men and Women of Prime Marriageable Age

	Women aged 15–24		Men aged 20–29
	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)
	Coresident	Unmarried | coresident	Coresident	Unmarried | coresident
Younger sister	−0.035	−0.008	0.024	0.024
	[0.004]	[0.003]	[0.005]	[0.006]
Mean among individuals w/ a younger brother	0.58	0.09	0.65	0.65
Number of observations	45,123	24,867	28,141	18,402

Notes. OLS estimates. Brackets contain standard errors clustered at the PSU level. The sample includes young women and men with at least one ever-born younger sibling. Only observations with singleton current and next births are included. Each cell reports a coefficient from a separate regression. In columns (1) and (3), the dependent variable equals 1 if the individual resides with his or her mother and 0 otherwise. In columns (2) and (4), the sample includes only coresident individuals; the dependent variable equals 1 if the individual has never married. All regressions include fixed effects for age, mother’s region of residence, survey, and the exact composition of older siblings by birth order and sex. Regressions also control for spacing from the previous birth, maternal and paternal educational attainment, maternal age, and rural residence.

Source. DHS Fertility Histories. Pre-1999 surveys are excluded because they do not allow linkage between the household roster (which contains data on marriage) and the individual women’s questionnaire (which contains the respondent’s fertility history). All countries have at least one post-1999 survey.