Under the influence of our older brother and sister: The association between sibling gender configuration and STEM degrees

Growth and survival of Great-tailed Grackle (Quiscalus mexicanus) nestlings were monitored over 3 years to determine if greater food demands of sons influenced nestling success. I predicted that (i) the growth rates of nestlings would be lower in nests containing mostly males, and (ii) the chance of all nestlings in predominantly male broods fledging would be less than that in predominantly female broods. Sibling gender and the overall sex ratio of the brood had little effect on nestling growth. There was no evidence that starvation was more frequent if the oldest nestlings were males rather than females, although there was some evidence that broods of three containing two or three males were less likely to fledge all nestlings than those containing two or three females. Mass at fledging for both males and females was influenced most strongly by hatching sequence and to a lesser extent by egg mass and hatching date.

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Sibling gender and wage differences

Applied Economics ◽

10.1080/00036846.2017.1374537 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 50 (15) ◽

pp. 1725-1745 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Neel Rao ◽

Twisha Chatterjee

Keyword(s):

Wage Differences ◽

Sibling Gender

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Sibling Achievement, Sibling Gender, and Beliefs about Parental Investment: Evidence from a National Survey Experiment

Social Forces ◽

10.1093/sf/soy095 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 97 (4) ◽

pp. 1603-1630 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Natasha Quadlin

Keyword(s):

National Survey ◽

Parental Investment ◽

Survey Experiment ◽

Sibling Gender

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Sibling relationship quality and young children’s mental health in Chinese two-child families

Social Behavior and Personality An International Journal ◽

10.2224/sbp.7457 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 47 (6) ◽

pp. 1-9 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Xiayun Yin ◽

Zhihua Li ◽

Jianhua Li ◽

Xiaoqun Liu

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Marital Satisfaction ◽

Prosocial Behavior ◽

Relationship Quality ◽

Sibling Relationship ◽

Age Difference ◽

Positive Interaction ◽

Sibling Relationship Quality ◽

The One ◽

Sibling Gender

With enactment of the universal two-child policy in China in 2016, the two-child family will replace the one-child family as the main family form. In this study we examined the contribution of sibling relationship quality in shaping the mental health of Chinese children in a two-child family. Parents (N = 280) reported the quality of their children’s sibling relationship, and their firstborn’s problematic and prosocial behavior, and temperament. Parents’ marital satisfaction and coparenting were also assessed. The results showed that after we had controlled for the child characteristics of age, gender, temperament, sibling age difference, and sibling gender difference, and for the parental characteristics of age and marital satisfaction, and coparenting, sibling negativity and positivity were both significantly related to child problematic behavior. In addition, sibling positivity was significantly related to child prosocial behavior. The results suggest that parents in a two-child family should provide guidance for their children’s sibling relationship, and, in particular, increase the children’s positive interaction to improve their mental health.

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Mechanisms Underlying Familial Influence on Elite Political Behavior: Evidence from the U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals

Review of Law & Economics ◽

10.1515/rle-2020-0042 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 0 (0) ◽

Author(s):

Daniel Lempert ◽

Alyse Camacho

Keyword(s):

Political Behavior ◽

Title Ix ◽

Courts Of Appeals ◽

Family Influences ◽

Judicial Decision ◽

Judicial Decision Making ◽

Sibling Gender ◽

The Relationship ◽

Circuit Courts ◽

Rule Out

Abstract This article contributes to the literature addressing family influences on elite political behavior. By empirically assessing the influence of sibling gender on judicial decision-making, we are able to present evidence on the mechanism by which child, sibling and other relatives’ gender may influence elite political behavior. We build on a published dataset by mining various archival sources to compile data on the gender of judges’ siblings. We find no evidence that male judges’ votes on so-called “women’s issues” (employment discrimination based on gender or pregnancy, reproductive rights/abortion, and Title IX) are affected by whether they have a sister, and we are able to rule out large effects of a sibling’s gender on male and female judges’ votes. Our results imply that the relationship between family member gender and elite political behavior is driven by the desire to avoid costs of discrimination, rather than learning from family members.

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