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Birth Order, Educational Attainment and Earnings: An Investigation Using the PSID

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Jasmin Kantarevic () (Ontario Medical Association and IZA Bonn)
Stéphane Mechoulan () (University of Toronto)

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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.

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Paper provided by Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in its series IZA Discussion Papers with number 1789.

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Keywords: birth order; family size; education;

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  1. Resul Cesur & Inas Rashad, 2008. "High Birth Weight and Cognitive Outcomes," NBER Working Papers 14524, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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