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Setting a good example? : examining sibling spillovers in educational achievement using a regression discontinuity design
Karbownik, Krzysztof; Özek, Umut - 2019
We identify externalities in human capital production function arising from sibling spillovers. Using regression discontinuity design generated by school-entry cutoffs and school records from one district in Florida, we find positive spillover effects from an older to a younger child in less...
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Birth order in the very long-run : estimating firstborn premiums between 1850 and 1940
Cools, Angela; Grooms, Jared; Karbownik, Krzysztof; … - 2024
The nineteenth-century American family experienced tremendous demographic, economic, and institutional changes. By … using birth order effects as a proxy for family environment, and linked census data on men born between 1835 and 1910, we … study how the family's role in human capital production evolved over this period. We find firstborn premiums for …
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