The effect of birth order on the probability of university enrolment

Radim Kuba, Jaroslav Flegr and Jan Havlíček

Intelligence, 2018, vol. 70, issue C, 61-72

Abstract: The birth order influences various psychological characteristics ranging from personality traits to sexual behaviour. Yet while many studies suggest that firstborn children are likely to achieve a higher educational level than their siblings, other studies reported no such effect, which may be due to various modulating factors such as sex and family size. In the present study, we have therefore tested the effect of birth order on the probability of university enrolment while taking these possibly modulating factors into consideration.

Keywords: Firstborn; Family constellation; Birth-order effect; Schooling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2018.08.003

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