Sibling-Linked Data in the Demographic and Health Surveys

Sonia Bhalotra ()

The Centre for Market and Public Organisation from Department of Economics, University of Bristol, UK

Abstract: This paper highlights an aspect of the enormous and little-exploited potential of the Demographic and Health Surveys, namely the use of data on siblings. Such data can be used to control for family-level unobserved heterogeneity that might confound the relationship of interest and to study correlations in sibling outcomes. These uses are illustrated with examples. The paper ends with a discussion of potential problems associated with the sibling data being derived from retrospective fertility histories of mothers.

Keywords: siblings; unobserved heterogeneity; retrospective fertility histories; state dependence; DHS; India. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I12 O12 J10 C23 H31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cwa, nep-dev and nep-hea
Date: 2008-10
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