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| Title: | | Birth order, educational attainment and earnings: an investigation using the PSID  |
| Authors: | | Kantarevic, Jasmin Mechoulan, Stéphane |
| Issue Date: | | 2005 |
| Series/Report no.: | | IZA Discussion Papers 1789 |
| 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. |
| Subjects: | | birth order family size education |
| JEL: | | I2 J1 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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