Birth Order, Educational Attainment, and Earnings
By Jasmin Kantarevic, Stéphane Mechoulan. The Journal of human resources, 2006
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We examine the implications of being early in the birth order, and whether a pattern exists within large families of falling then rising attainment with respect to birth order. Unlike other studies using U.S. data, we go beyond grade for age and look at racial differences. Drawing from OLS and fixed effects estimations, we find that being first-born confers a significant educational advantage that persists when considering earnings; being last-born confers none. These effects are significant for large Black families at the high school level, and for White families of any size at both high school and college levels.
Subfields: Demography, Education, Sociology and Political Science
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- The Early Origins of Birth Order Differences in Children’s Outcomes and Parental Behavior (2016, background): “…between higher birth order and key outcomes such as IQ, educational attainment, and wages (Behrman and Taubman 1986; Kessler 1991; Hanushek 1992; Kantarevic and Mechoulan 2006; Black, Devereux, and Salvanes 2005; Black, Devereux, and Salvanes 2007).2 Yet attempts to identify the sources of…”
- Polygenic Influence on Educational Attainment: New evidence from The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (2015, unknown): “One clear difference between siblings, which previous studies have related to attainment, is their birth order (Black, Devereux, & Salvanes, 2006; Conley & Glauber, 2006; Kantarevic & Mechoulan, 2006; cf. Hauser & Sewell, 1985).”
- Born to Lead? The Effect of Birth Order on Noncognitive Abilities (2017, unknown): “…have documented that firstborns have higher educational attainment and earnings, have a higher IQ, and are likely to be healthier (see, e.g., Barclay, 2015; Black, Devereux, & Salvanes 2005, 2011, 2016; Kristensen & Bjerkedal, 2007; Kantarevic & Mechoulan, 2006; Booth & Kee, 2008; Bu, 2014).”