analysis of the effects of siblings' gender on adults' personality, using data from 85,887 people from 12 large representative … subsamples, our results suggest that siblings' gender does not systematically affect personality. …Does growing up with a sister rather than a brother affect personality? In this paper, we provide a comprehensive …

analysis of the effects of siblings’ gender on adults’ personality, using data from 85,887 people from 12 large representative … subsamples, our results suggest that siblings’ gender does not systematically affect personality. …Does growing up with a sister rather than a brother affect personality? In this paper, we provide a comprehensive …

We examine how the gender of a sibling affects earnings, education and family formation. Identification is complicated … by parental preferences: if parents prefer certain sex compositions over others, children's gender affects not only the … outcomes of other children but also the very existence of potential additional children. We address this problem by looking at …

search for birth-order effects on personality has not yet resulted in conclusive findings. We used data from three large … research question. This data base allowed us to identify even very small effects of birth order on personality with … different analytical strategies by comparing siblings with different birth-order positions (i) within the same family (within-family …

I examine how one central aspect of the childhood family environment - sibling gender composition - affects women … of increased gender-specialized parenting in families with mixed-sex children, suggesting a stronger transmission of …'s gender conformity, measured through their choice of occupation and partner. Using Danish administrative data, I causally …