Born to run behind? Persisting birth month effects on earnings

Erling Røed Larsen and Ingeborg F. Solli

Labour Economics, 2017, vol. 46, issue C, 200-210

Abstract: The relative age effect is an established phenomenon in the literature, but estimates of its strength and duration vary. With Norwegian registry data we investigate how birth month affects earnings throughout the full course of life (20 to 68years) for all Norwegian men born during the 1940s. We compare earnings across birth month within school cohorts, and observe earnings both at given points in time (“Social age”) and at given exact ages (“Biological age”). Our findings suggest that, albeit significant earnings differences at given ages, the effects cancel out over the full course of life and leave no imprint on life earnings.

Keywords: Birth month effect; Life earnings; Relative age (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C12 D03 I20 I21 J24 J30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2016.10.005

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