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Title: The Effects of Closely Spaced and Widely Spaced Sibship Size on Intellectual Development: Reply to Phillips and Downey et al.
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1. Guo, Guang
Vanwey, Leah K.
The Effects of Closely Spaced and Widely Spaced Sibship Size on Intellectual Development: Reply to Phillips and Downey et al.
American Sociological Review 64,2 (April 1999): 199-206.
Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2657527
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79
Publisher: American Sociological Association
Keyword(s): Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Siblings

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A response to Meredith Phillips's & Douglas B. Downey et al's (both 1999) analyses of the authors' contention that sibship size has little influence on children's intellectual development. Whereas Phillips' commentary is welcomed, it is asserted that Downey et al have failed to invalidate the authors' contention. Contrary to the latter's assertion, it is suggested that cross-sectional model analyses of both closely & widely spaced sibship size are potentially misleading. It is contended that the change model effectively controlled "unobserved permanent family characteristics." Downey et al's assertion that change & cross-sectional models are comparable is rejected because both models analyze different measures of sibship size & children's intellectual growth. Moreover, their contention that the authors presented a static representation of the family is repudiated.
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Guo, Guang and Leah K. Vanwey. "The Effects of Closely Spaced and Widely Spaced Sibship Size on Intellectual Development: Reply to Phillips and Downey et al." American Sociological Review 64,2 (April 1999): 199-206.