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 …

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 …

. Our sample includes more than 12,000 men and 10,000 women, who all left school in 1992, in France. The wages and … educational achievements of individuals, as well as many aspects of family background, including birth order, number of sisters …

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 …

One of the theoretical predictions relating to the family size and birth order effect on child capital is resource … household size declined. This paper investigates the child birth order and alternative family structure (i.e household) size …