1,000,000 children born in Denmark between 1981 and 2010. Using family fixed effects models, we find a positive and …

This paper examines the effect of birth order and family size on human capital using a consistent measure of cognitive … that is orthogonal to family size, as well as controlling for student and family covariates, we find negative family size … no evidence of a relationship between birth order effects and the level of development, while the effect of family size …

marriage registry records linking family members, we further analyze the role of family composition and socio-economic status …- and the last-born and their siblings, and by the number of brothers in the family. Birth order differences – particularly … inheritance rules or transmission of occupations to children born earlier in the family. Taken together, our findings suggest that …

personality traits. Finally, we find a significant role of sex composition within the family. Later-born boys suffer an additional …

database together with self-collected survey data. Using family fixed effects models we find significant positive birth order …

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 …