Golsteyn, Bart H. H.; Magnée, Cécile A. J. - 2017
This paper studies the causal effect of birth spacing (i.e., the age difference between siblings) on personality traits … studies, we employ miscarriages between the first and second child as an instrument for birth spacing. The results show that a … result sheds a first light on the causal effects of birth spacing on personality traits. …