This paper models the probability of 15-year-old children missing school or being late. The paper sets out to uncover … the effects of family background and birth order on attendance. Looking at birth order effects allows one to test Sulloway … poor attendance. However their experience of -or attitude- to school has significant effects as has class size, which is …

different analytical strategies by comparing siblings with different birth-order positions (i) within the same family (within-family … design) and (ii) between different families (between-family design). In our analyses, we confirmed the expected birth …

affected by family structure, such as the number of siblings and birth order where individuals grow up. After controlling for …

This paper examines the causal effects of family size and demographic structure on offspring's international migration … migration. The positive correlation between sibship size and migration disappears when endogeneity of family size is addressed … across children within the family. Older siblings, especially firstborn males, are more likely to migrate, while having more …