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

Angela Cools, Jared Grooms, Krzysztof Karbownik, Siobhan O'Keefe, Joseph Price, Anthony Wray

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.

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Year of publication:	April 2024
Authors:	Cools, Angela ; Grooms, Jared ; Karbownik, Krzysztof ; O'Keefe, Siobhan M. ; Price, Joseph ; Wray, Anthony
Publisher:	Bonn, Germany : IZA - Institute of Labor Economics
Subject:	birth order \| parental investments \| occupational outcomes \| intergenerational mobility \| marriage \| fertility \| Fertilität \| Fertility \| Kinder \| Children \| Bildungsniveau \| Educational achievement \| Schätzung \| Estimation \| Bildungsinvestition \| Human capital investment \| Ehe \| Marriage \| Familienökonomik \| Family economics \| Intergenerationenmobilität \| Intergenerational mobility \| Intergenerationale Übertragung \| Intergenerational transfer \| Familie \| Family

Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (circa 39 Seiten)
Series:	Discussion paper series / IZA. - Bonn : IZA, ISSN 2365-9793, ZDB-ID 2120053-1. - Vol. no. 16953
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature ; Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	hdl:10419/299881 [Handle]
Classification:	J13 - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth ; J62 - Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility ; N30 - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Income and Wealth. General, International, or Comparative
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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