| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP6398 |
| DP6398 Are Risk Aversion and Impatience Related to Cognitive Ability? | |
| Armin Falk; Thomas J Dohmen; Uwe Sunde; David Huffman | |
| 发表日期 | 2007-07-20 |
| 出版年 | 2007 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | While recent research finds strong evidence that birth order affects children?s outcomes such as education and earnings, the evidence on the effects of birth order on IQ is decidedly mixed. This paper uses a large dataset on the population of Norway that allows us to precisely measure birth order effects on IQ using both cross-sectional and within-family methods. Importantly, irrespective of method, we find a strong and significant effect of birth order on IQ, and our results suggest that earlier born children have higher IQs. Our preferred estimates suggest differences between first-borns and second-borns of about one fifth of a standard deviation or approximately 3 IQ points. Despite these large average effects, birth order only explains about 3% of the within-family variance of IQ. When we control for birth endowments, the estimated birth order effects increase. Thus, our analysis suggests that birth order effects are not biologically determined. Also, there is no evidence that birth order effects occur because later-born children are more affected by family breakdown. |
| 主题 | Labour Economics |
| 关键词 | Birth order Human capital Intelligence |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp6398 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/535237 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Armin Falk,Thomas J Dohmen,Uwe Sunde,et al. DP6398 Are Risk Aversion and Impatience Related to Cognitive Ability?. 2007. |
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