%0 Report
        %A Kantarevic, Jasmin
%A Mechoulan, Stéphane
        %T Birth Order, Educational Attainment and Earnings: An Investigation Using the PSID
        %D 2005
        %8 2005 Sep
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 1789
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp1789
        %X 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.
        %K birth order
%K family size
%K education