2. Birth Spacing and Children’s outcome
Date: March 2011
This 2011 study, mainly focused on how age gaps affected educational achievements between siblings. They also based their findings on children’s (ages 5-7) scores on the Peabody Individual Achievement Test. They found that a larger gap improves the health of both mom and infants, longer spacing between kids showed higher test scores for the older ones, but lower scores for the younger ones.
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