Bonesrønning, Hans; Massih, Sofia Sandgren - In: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics … 40 (2011) 6, pp. 824-832
We examine birth order effects on academic achievement for ten-year-old students using data for the entire population of fifth graders in Norway 2007/2008. The analysis thus adds to a thin empirical literature focusing on birth order effects among young children. We find that being firstborn...