Esposito, Lucio, Mitra Kumar, Sunil and Villasenor-Lopez, Adrian orcid.org/0000-0003-0940-045X (2020) The importance of being earliest:birth order and educational outcomes along the socioeconomic ladder in Mexico. Journal of Population Economics. ISSN 0933-1433
Abstract
We study the effect of birth order on educational outcomes in Mexico using 2 million observations from the 2010 Census. We find that the effect of birth order is negative, and a variety of endogeneity and robustness checks suggest a causal interpretation of this finding. We then examine whether these effects vary across households’ economic status, and we find significant heterogeneity across absolute as well as relative standards of living, operationalized as household wealth and relative deprivation. Finally, we find that firstborns’ advantage is amplified when they are male, and in particular when other siblings are female.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2020 |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Sciences (York) > Environment and Geography (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 15 Jan 2020 10:40 |
Last Modified: | 16 Oct 2024 16:19 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-019-00764-3 |
Status: | Published online |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1007/s00148-019-00764-3 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:155682 |
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