The effect of opposite sex siblings on cognitive and noncognitive skills in early childhood

We investigate the effect of having opposite sex siblings on cognitive and noncognitive skills of children in the United States at the onset of formal education. Our identification strategy rests on the assumption that, conditional on covariates, the sibling sex composition of the two firstborn chil...

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Volume:	24
Main Author:	Cyron, Laura Schwerdt, Guido Viarengo, Martina
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Place of publication:	ABINGDON Routledge 11.11.2017 ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
published in:	Applied economics letters Vol. 24; no. 19; pp. 1369 - 1373
Data of publication:	11/11/2017
ISSN:	1350-4851 1466-4291
EISSN:	1466-4291
Discipline:	Economics
Subjects:	ECLS-K human capital sibling gender cognitive skills noncognitive skills Economics Business & Economics Social Sciences SCHOOL ECLS-K ACHIEVEMENT human capital sibling gender cognitive skills noncognitive skills EDUCATION BIRTH
Online Access:	Fulltext
Database:	Social Sciences Citation Index Web of Science - Social Sciences Citation Index - 2017 Web of Knowledge Web of Science CrossRef Database information Databases - DBIS