Double take: The effect of sibling sex composition on women’s schooling, earnings, and labor supply

Moiz Bhai

Economics Letters, 2016, vol. 146, issue C, 42-46

Abstract: Understanding the role of the family in the production of human capital is a salient question in economics. Using a twin research design that exploits exogenous gender variation in dizygotic twins, this paper investigates the effect of sibling sex composition on schooling, earnings, and labor supply. Women born with a male co-twin have higher earnings and increased rates of high school completion than women born with a female co-twin. Men born with a female co-twin, on the other hand, have outcomes that are statistically indistinguishable from zero. Family attributes provide a limited explanation of the sex composition effect.

Keywords: Sibling sex composition; Gender; Twins (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D13 J13 J16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2016.06.030

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