@techreport{Kantarevic2005Birth,
abstract = {Whether siblings of specific birth order perform differently has been a longstanding open empirical question. We use the family tree structure of the PSID to examine two claims found in the literature: whether being early in the birth order implies a distinct educational advantage, and whether there exists, within large families, a pattern of falling then rising attainment with respect to birth order, to the point where it becomes best to be last-born. Drawing from OLS and family fixed effects estimations, we find that being first-born confers a significant educational advantage that persists when considering earnings; being last-born confers none.},
address = {Bonn},
author = {Jasmin Kantarevic and St\'{e}phane Mechoulan},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {I2; J1; 330; birth order; family size; education; Kinder; Familie; Bildungsverhalten; Ethnische Gruppe; USA},
language = {eng},
number = {1789},
publisher = {IZA},
title = {Birth order, educational attainment and earnings: an investigation using the PSID},
type = {IZA Discussion Papers},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/33423},
year = {2005}
}
