Plausibly Exogenous [947] - Family Size (09/02/2022)

LHS Variable
Child health, education, and welfare

RHS Variable
Size of family

Source of Exogenous Variation
Instrumenting children’s sibship size with their (i) mothers’ menarche age and (ii) household’s treatment status (in the Matlab family planning experiment)

- Mccarthy and Pearlman (2022), “Multiplying Siblings: Exploring the Trade-off Between Family Size and Child Education in Rural Bangladesh”