Emerson, Patrick M.; Souza, Andre Portela - Vanderbilt University Department of Economics - 2002
This paper examines the effects of birth order on the child labor incidence and school attendance of Brazilian children … to afford to send their earlier born children to school, but may be able to send their later-born children due to the …, male first-born children are less likely to attend school than their later born siblings and that male last-born children …