Table IX.
Next-Youngest Sister Effects on Women, Nepal
| Marriage and fertility (Cox hazard ratios) |
Human capital (OLS coefficients) |
Health (OLS coefficients) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | (6) | |
| Marriage | First birth | Highest grade | Illiterate | Height (cm) | BMI (m/kg2) | |
| Panel A: All women aged 15–49, 2006 DHS | ||||||
| Younger sister | 1.116 | 1.127 | −0.146 | 0.029 | 0.090 | −0.122 |
| [0.025] | [0.027] | [0.078] | [0.010] | [0.129] | [0.071] | |
| Mean among women w/ a younger brother | 0.11 | 0.08 | 3.18 | 0.44 | 150.89 | 20.69 |
| Number of observations | 8,706 | 8,706 | 8,706 | 8,701 | 8,669 | 8,667 |
| Marriage and fertility (Cox hazard ratios) | Own human capital (OLS coefficients) | Match attributes (OLS coefficients) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (7) | (8) | (9) | (10) | (11) | (12) | (13) | (14) | |
| Marriage | First birth | Highest grade | Illiterate | H’s grade | H skilled occ. | H’s age | Asset index | |
| Panel B: Ever-married women aged 30–49, 1996 and 2006 DHS | ||||||||
| Younger sister | 1.056 | 1.063 | −0.150 | 0.029 | −0.215 | −0.044 | −0.044 | −0.044 |
| [0.022] | [0.024] | [0.068] | [0.011] | [0.100] | [0.012] | [0.148] | [0.026] | |
| Mean among women w/ a younger brother | 0.15 | 0.09 | 1.09 | 0.73 | 4.03 | 0.40 | 43.06 | 0.02 |
| Number of observations | 6,877 | 6,877 | 6,877 | 6,873 | 6,672 | 6,772 | 6,329 | 6,877 |
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 first row of each panel reports the regression results. The independent variable equals 1 for a next-youngest sister and 0 for a next-youngest brother. The second row of each panel reports the mean outcome for women with next-youngest brothers; for the Cox models, the row reports the mean hazard during ages 10–30. All regressions control for religion, spacing from the respondent’s birth, the year the respondent’s mother initiated childbearing, and birth and survey year fixed effects. The OLS regressions include fixed effects for the exact composition of older siblings by birth order and sex; the Cox models stratify by this variable (so as not to impose proportionality).
Source. 1996 and 2006 Nepal DHS Sibling Histories.