TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Kantarevic, Jasmin
AU  - Mechoulan, Stéphane
        TI  - Birth Order, Educational Attainment and Earnings: An Investigation Using the PSID
        PY  - 2005/Sep/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 1789
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp1789
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - birth order
KW  - family size
KW  - education
        ER  -