Chen, Stacey; Liu, Jin-Tan; Chen, Yen-Chien - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
in explaining first-born boys' education levels. In contrast, both effects for first-born girls are evident but go in … opposite directions, resulting in a near-zero total effect which has previously been a measure of gender bias. These results … offer new evidence of sibling rivalry and gender bias in family settings that has not been detected in the literature. …