Birth Order in the Very Long-Run: Estimating Firstborn Premiums between 1850 and 1940

Angela Cools, Jared Grooms, Krzysztof Karbownik, Siobhan O'Keefe, Joseph Price and Anthony Wray

No 11095, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

Abstract: The nineteenth-century American family experienced tremendous demographic, economic, and institutional changes. By using birth order effects as a proxy for family environment, and linked census data on men born between 1835 and 1910, we study how the family’s role in human capital production evolved over this period. We find firstborn premiums for occupational outcomes, marriage, and fertility that are similar across census waves. Our results indicate that the returns to investments in the family environment were stable over a long period.

Keywords: birth order; parental investments; occupation outcomes; intergenerational mobility; marriage; fertility (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J13 J62 N30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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