persistence between parents and children's outcomes has been an active area of research. However, since Gary Solon's 1999 Chapter …

, and credit records, to identify the effects of increased student borrowing on credit-constrained students' educational …

occupational sorting; first-born children are more likely to be managers, while later-born children are more likely to be self …-employed. We also find that earlier born children are more likely to be in occupations that require leadership ability, social … evidence of lower parental human capital investments in later-born children …

While recent research finds strong evidence that birth order affects children's outcomes such as education, IQ scores …