Birth order matters: the effect of family size and birth order on educational attainment

Birth Order, Family Size and Educational Attainment

This paper investigates the e ect of family size and birth order on educational attainment. An instrumental variables approach is used to identify the e ect of family size. Instruments for the number of children are twins at last birth and the sex mix of the rst two children. The e ect of birth order is identi ed, by examining the relation with years of education for di erent family sizes separ...

birth order, family size, neurosis

in an attempt to investigate the relationship of birth rank and family size with the incidence of neurosis in an iranian culture, case notes of 1029 schizophrenic patients as (497 males and 532 females) referred to psychiatric clinic for insured workers were studied. the incidence of neurasis appeared to be significantly more frequent among the first-half position of birth  rders in the familie...

birth order and family size in schizophrenia

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Intelligence, birth order, and family size.

The analysis of the National Child Development Study in the United Kingdom (n = 17,419) replicates some earlier findings and shows that genuine within-family data are not necessary to make the apparent birth-order effect on intelligence disappear. Birth order is not associated with intelligence in between-family data once the number of siblings is statistically controlled. The analyses support ...

Childhood allergies, birth order and family size.