The relationship between family size, birth order, and educational outcomes has been a topic of considerable interest in social science research. Studies have shown that these factors can ...

We introduce a general framework to analyze the trade-off between education and family size. Our framework incorporates parental preferences for birth order and delivers theoretically consistent birth ...

The objective of this study was to examine the relationship between asthma prevalence, and family size and birth order. Methods: The medical records of 531,116 Israeli military conscripts were ...

Like most previous studies, we find a negative correlation between family size and children's educational attainment. However, when we include indicators for birth order, the effect of family size ...

“So it’s not so much the birth order as much as it is the way that the family relationship patterns are developed.” Aside from greater exposure to adults, oldest children are often ...