The existing empirical evidence on the effects of birth order on wages does not distinguish between temporary and permanent effects. Using data from 11 European countries for …
While recent research has found that birth order affects outcomes such as education and earnings, the evidence for effects on health is more limited. This paper uses a large …
This study uses data on fully adopted sibling groups to test whether the explanation for the consistently observed negative effects of birth order are physiological or social in origin …
A growing body of evidence suggests that reproductive history influences post-reproductive mortality. A potential explanation for this association is confounding by socioeconomic status …
We analyze the relationship between birth order, parental health investment and children's health using administrative data from Austria. We show that later-born children have better …
MP Gutmann, EK Merchant, E Roberts - The journal of economic …, 2018 - cambridge.org
Big data is an exciting prospect for the field of economic history, which has long depended on the acquisition, keying, and cleaning of scarce numerical information about the past. This …
SK Mishra, B Ram, A Singh, A Yadav - Journal of biosocial science, 2018 - cambridge.org
Using data from India's National Family Health Survey, 2005–06 (NFHS-3), this article examines the patterns of relationship between birth order and infant mortality. The analysis …
A growing body of research has examined whether birth intervals influence perinatal outcomes and child health as well as long-term educational and socioeconomic outcomes …
IA Hammad, H Meeks, A Fraser, LH Theilen… - American Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background Fetal environment has a substantial influence on an individual's health throughout their life course. Animal models of hypertensive disease of pregnancy have …