Understanding the effects of siblings on child mortality: evidence from India |
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Authors: | Gerald Makepeace Sarmistha Pal |
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Institution: | (1) Cardiff Business School and IZA Bonn, Colum Drive, Cardiff, CF10 3EU, UK;(2) Department of Economics and Finance, Brunel University, Uxbridge, UB8 3PH, UK |
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Abstract: | Given the intrinsically sequential nature of childbirth, timing of a child’s birth has consequences not only for itself but
also for its older and younger siblings. The paper argues that prior spacing and posterior spacing between consecutive siblings
are thus important measures of intensity of sibling competition for limited parental resources. While the available estimates
of child mortality tend to ignore the endogeneity of sibling composition, we use a correlated recursive model of prior and
posterior spacing and child mortality to correct it. There is evidence that uncorrected estimates under-estimate the effects
of prior and posterior spacing on child mortality.
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Keywords: | Sibling rivalry Birth spacing Endogeneity bias |
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