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Child's socio-emotional skills : is there a quantity-quality trade-off?
Briole, Simon; Le Forner, Helène; Lepinteur, Anthony - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012234754
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An economic explanation of the effect of birth order on educational achievement
Mehrbani, Vahid - In: Iranian economic review : journal of University of Tehran 22 (2018) 4, pp. 887-907
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012152380
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Birth order and child cognitive outcomes : an exploration of the parental time mechanism
Monfardini, Chiara; See, Sarah Grace - In: Education economics 24 (2016) 5/6, pp. 481-495
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011710004
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Birth order and child health
Björkegren, Evelina; Svaleryd, Helena - 2017
Previous research has shown that birth order affects outcomes such as educational achievements, IQ and earnings. The mechanisms behind these effects are, however, still largely unknown. In this paper, we examine birth-order effects on health, and whether health at young age could be a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011740810
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Testing the quantity-quality model of fertility : Estimation using unrestricted family size models
Mogstad, Magne; Wiswall, Matthew - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 7 (2016) 1, pp. 157-192
relationship between family size and child outcomes. We find that the conclusion in Black, Devereux, and Salvanes (2005) of no … family size effect does not hold after relaxing their linear specification in family size. We find nonzero effects of family … instrumental variables estimation instrumenting family size with twin births. Estimation using a unrestricted specification for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011798965
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Food for thought : the birth-order effect and resource allocation in Indonesia
Calimeris, Lauren; Peters, Christina - In: Applied economics 49 (2017) 54, pp. 5523-5534
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011845194
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Family size, birth order, and tests of the quantity-quality model
Guo, Rufei; Yi, Junjian; Zhang, Junsen - In: Journal of comparative economics : the journal of the … 45 (2017) 2, pp. 219-224
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011907055
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Birth order effects and educational achievement in the developing world
Schwefer, Maximilian - 2018
Studies on the role of birth order in educational achievement in developing countries have yielded contradictory findings. This study uses unique and novel data on 4,362 siblings living in alternative care families in 54 countries. Results suggest negative birth order effects among biological...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011962842
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Are economic preferences shaped by the family context? : the impact of birth order and siblings' sex composition on economic preferences
Detlefsen, Lena; Friedl, Andreas; Lima de Miranda, Katharina - 2018
The formation of economic preferences in childhood and adolescence has long-term consequences for life-time outcomes. We study in an experiment with 525 teenagers how both birth order and siblings' sex composition affect risk, time and social preferences. We find that second born children are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011949257
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Are economic preferences shaped by the family context? : the impact of birth order and siblings' sex composition on economic preferences
Detlefsen, Lena; Friedl, Andreas; Lima de Miranda, Katharina - 2018 - This version: 9 November 2018
The formation of economic preferences in childhood and adolescence has long-term consequences for life-time outcomes. We study in an experiment with 525 teenagers how both birth order and siblings' sex composition affect risk, time and social preferences. We find that second born children are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011933853