Birth order in the very long-run: estimating firstborn premiums between 1850 and 1940

Angela Cools; Jared Grooms; Krzysztof Karbownik; Siobhan M. O'Keefe; Joseph Price; Anthony Wray

doi:10.3386/w32407

Birth order in the very long-run: estimating firstborn premiums between 1850 and 1940

Angela Cools, Jared Grooms, Krzysztof Karbownik, Siobhan M. O'Keefe, Joseph Price, Anthony Wray^*

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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.

Originalsprog	Engelsk
Udgivelsessted	Cambridge
Udgiver	The National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge/MA
Antal sider	38
DOI	https://doi.org/10.3386/w32407
Status	Udgivet - maj 2024

Navn	NBER Working Paper
Nummer	32407

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10.3386/w32407

https://www.nber.org/papers/w32407

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