We introduce a general framework to analyze the trade-off between education and family size. Our framework incorporates parental preferences for birth order and delivers theoretically consistent birth ...
In a family, birth order refers to your place in relation to your other siblings (e.g. first born, last born) or if you're an only child. And there are so many stereotypes about birth order!
The study used the HEXACO Personality Inventory to assess 6 personality traits based on sibling birth order: honesty-humility, emotionality, extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and ...
Like most previous studies, we find a negative correlation between family size and children's educational attainment. However, when we include indicators for birth order, the effect of family size ...