Table 4.

Expected inheritance and migration, birth order and sibling composition, Marginal effects from probit estimation.

Dependent variable = 1 if leave childhood municipality is between 1865 and 1900
	Full sample	Equal match sample	Age band sample	Full sample East	Full sample North/West
Assets	−0.060** (0.028)	−0.059 (0.055)	−0.055** (0.036)	−0.097** (0.033)	−0.075** (0.022)
Oldest	0.021* (0.012)	0.039** (0.018)	0.052** (0.017)	0.004 (0.015)	0.048** (0.018)
Oldest× assets	−0.030** (0.013)	−0.084** (0.022)	−0.074** (0.019)	−0.001 (0.016)	−0.073** (0.023)
Coeff. on # sibs	Fig. 1	–	–	Fig. 1	Fig. 1
Coeff. on # bros	Fig. 2	–	–	Fig. 2	Fig. 2
N	25,822	9946	14,440	14,677	11,134

Notes: Sample includes matched men whose mothers were less than 43 years old in 1865. All regressions contain province fixed effects, dummy variables for own age and mother’s age, indicators for urban residence and living in a parents’ municipality of birth in 1865; and dummy variables for number of siblings, number of brothers and their interactions with assets. Coefficients on the dummy variables for number of siblings and number of brothers are reported in Figs. 1 and 2. The equal match sample uses the same matching criteria (first name, last name and age) for men in both the US and Norway in 1900. The age band sample requires that matched individuals are unique by first and last name within a five year age band (see text for details). We code all provinces with a western coastline that do not border on Sweden as being part of the North and West. These are: Bergen; Finnmark; Hordaland; Møre and Romsdal; Nordland; Rogaland; Sogn and Fjordane; Troms and Vest-Agder. The other 12 provinces are included in the category ‘East.’

^*= statistically significant at the 10% level.

^**= statistically significant at the 5% level.