TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Bansak, Cynthia
AU  - Jiang, Xuan
AU  - Yang, Guanyi
        TI  - Sibling Spillover in Rural China: A Story of Sisters and Daughters
        PY  - 2020/Apr/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 13127
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp13127
        AB  - We find a strong positive sibling spillover effect in two-children households in rural China, as measured by an increase in the Chinese and Math test scores of elder siblings when their younger sibling starts school. We use the Chinese Law of Compulsory Education as an exogenous variation in the timing of school enrollment to control for the impact of simultaneous and unobserved out-of-sibship factors. The mechanism for the sibling spillover likely comes from an increase in studying interactions within the sibling pairs. The spillover is prompted by having a younger sister enter school and is the strongest when both children are daughters. However, the son-preference culture emphasized in certain regions negatively offsets the positive sister-led spillover.
        KW  - intrahousehold allocation
KW  - son preference
KW  - school cutoff
KW  - sibling spillover
KW  - peer effect
KW  - human capital
KW  - rural China
        ER  -