On the Production of Skills and the Birth-Order Effect

Ronni Pavan

Journal of Human Resources, 2016, vol. 51, issue 3, 699-726

Abstract: First-born children tend to outperform their younger siblings on measures such as cognitive exams, wages, educational attainment, and employment. Using a framework similar to Cunha and Heckman (2008) and Cunha, Heckman, and Schennach (2010), this paper finds that differences in parents’ investments across siblings can account for more than one-half of the gap in cognitive skills among siblings. The study’s framework accommodates for endogeneity in parents’ investments, measurement error, missing observations, and dynamic impacts of parental investments.

Date: 2016
Note: DOI: doi:10.3368/jhr.51.3.0913-5920R
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