scholarly journals No evidence that middleborns feel less close to family and closer to friends than other birth orders.

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Veronika Simanko ◽  
Ben Rimmer ◽  
Thomas Victor Pollet
Keyword(s):  
Educational Attainment ◽  
Birth Order ◽  
Opposite Direction ◽  
Current Literature ◽  
Sibship Size ◽  
Emotional Closeness

Middleborns have been argued to be the neglected birth order. The present study aimed to test whether the emotional closeness to parents, siblings or friends differed between middleborns and otherborns, across two different datasets. Using a between family design this study accounted for gender, nationality, educational attainment, age and sibship size via matching. We found no evidence to suggest that middleborns differ from otherborns in familial sentiment. The sign of closeness to friends was in the opposite direction than predicted, with middleborns being less close than other birth orders. The findings are discussed with reference to current literature on birth order and familial sentiment.

scholarly journals Analysing Effects of Birth Order on Intelligence, Educational Attainment, Big Five, and Risk Aversion in an Indonesian Sample

2020 ◽  
pp. per.2285
Author(s):  
Laura J. Botzet ◽  
Julia M. Rohrer ◽  
Ruben C. Arslan
Keyword(s):  
Risk Aversion ◽  
Educational Attainment ◽  
Birth Order ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Order Effects ◽  
Sibship Size ◽  
Personality Psychology ◽  
Linear Pattern ◽  
Universal Family ◽  
Non Linear

Few studies have examined birth order effects on personality in countries that are not Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic (WEIRD). However, theories have generally suggested that interculturally universal family dynamics are the mechanism behind birth order effects, and prominent theories such as resource dilution would predict even stronger linear effects in poorer countries. Here, we examine a subset of up to 11 188 participants in the Indonesian Family Life Survey to investigate whether later–borns differ from earlier–borns in intelligence, educational attainment, Big Five, and risk aversion. Analyses were performed using within–family designs in mixed–effects models. In model comparisons, we tested for linear and non–linear birth order effects as well as for possible interactions of birth order and sibship size. Our estimated effect sizes are consistent with the emerging account of birth order as having relatively little impact on intelligence, Big Five, and risk aversion. We found a non–linear pattern for educational attainment that was not robust to imputation of missing data and not aligned with trends in WEIRD countries. Overall, the small birth order effects reported in other studies appear to be culturally specific. © 2020 The Authors. European Journal of Personality published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of European Association of Personality Psychology

scholarly journals Effects of Birth Order on Intelligence, Educational Attainment, Personality, and Risk Aversion in an Indonesian Sample

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Botzet ◽  
Julia Marie Rohrer ◽  
Ruben C. Arslan
Keyword(s):  
Risk Aversion ◽  
Educational Attainment ◽  
Birth Order ◽  
Panel Study ◽  
Effect Sizes ◽  
Order Effects ◽  
Sibship Size ◽  
Resource Dilution ◽  
Universal Family ◽  
Intelligence Education

Few studies have examined birth order effects on personality in countries that are not Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic (WEIRD), even though theories have generally suggested interculturally universal family dynamics as the mechanism behind birth order effects, and prominent theories such as resource dilution would even predict stronger effects in poorer countries. Here, we investigate a subset of up to 11,188 participants of the Indonesian Family Life Survey, an ongoing representative panel study, to study whether later-born siblings differ from earlier-borns in intelligence, educational attainment, personality, and risk aversion. Analyses were performed using within-family designs in mixed-effects models. In model comparisons we tested for linear and non-linear birth order effects as well as for possible interactions of birth order and sibship size. Our estimated effect sizes are consistent with the emerging account of birth order as having relatively little impact on intelligence, education, personality, and risk aversion; and they exclude recent estimates from WEIRD populations based on large sample sizes. Thus, even the small effects of birth order reported in other studies appear to be culturally specific.

Narcotics Addicts: Effect of Family and Parental Risk Factors on Timing of Emancipation, Drug Use Onset, Pre-Addiction Incarcerations and Educational Achievement

1990 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
William J. McCarthy ◽  
M. Douglas Anglin
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
Educational Attainment ◽  
Birth Order ◽  
Family Size ◽  
Age Of Onset ◽  
Juvenile Detention ◽  
Parental History ◽  
Parental Absence ◽  
History Of

The family background characteristics of 756 male heroin users were examined to determine the effects of selected family risk factors on the timing of onset of emancipation and drug use, on pre-addiction incarcerations and on educational attainment. These risk factors included family size, birth order, socioeconomic status, family drug use, parental history of alcoholism, parental absence, and family history of incarceration. The two measures of age of emancipation were age on leaving school and age on leaving home. Age of onset of regular use was measured for the following drugs: tobacco, alcohol, marijuana and heroin. Incarceration measures included the occurrence of juvenile detention and the time spent in prison prior to first addiction. Educational attainment was a score on a California State achievement test. Larger family size, higher birth order, parental alcoholism and parental absence were found to have a cumulatively negative effect on how young the respondents were when they first left home and when they first used particular drugs regularly, on their level of tested academic achievement, and on their probability of juvenile detention. Implications for social policies designed to prevent drug abuse are discussed.

Sibship size and educational attainment of Canadian baby boomers

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maryam Dilmaghani
Keyword(s):  
Educational Attainment ◽  
Baby Boomers ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Parental Education ◽  
Causal Effect ◽  
Baby Boom ◽  
Sibship Size ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Social Surveys ◽  
Female Baby

PurposeThe present study assesses how sibship size affects child quality as measured by educational attainment.Design/methodology/approachThe data are from the Canadian General Social Surveys (GSS) of 1986, 1990, 1994 and 1995. The sample is restricted to the individuals born in Canada between 1946 and 1965, that is, the baby-boom generation. In addition to controlling for parental education, the sibship size is instrumented by a non-binary variable created based on the sex composition of the sibship. While most previous studies have pooled both genders, the present paper produces by gender estimatesFindingsThe OLS estimates are statistically significant, negative and moderately large for both male and female baby boomers. When the sibship size is instrumented, the estimates indicate that one additional sibling had reduced the educational attainment of male baby boomers by almost half a year. No causal effect for the sibship size is found for female baby boomers.Originality/valueThis is the first paper on the effects of sibship size on educational attainment, using Canadian data.

Birth Order and Family Size: Bias Caused by Changes in Birth Rate

1969 ◽  
Vol 115 (523) ◽  
pp. 647-657 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. H. Hare ◽  
J. S. Price
Keyword(s):  
Birth Order ◽  
Family Size ◽  
Null Hypothesis ◽  
Birth Rate ◽  
Reproductive Period ◽  
Adult Patients ◽  
Rank Distribution ◽  
Sibship Size ◽  
Birth Rank ◽  
Age Range

In a previous paper (Price and Hare, 1969) we drew attention to some types of bias which may complicate the search for a useful association between disease and birth order. In particular, we considered biases occurring in a sample of adult patients where the patients' mothers have all passed their reproductive period and where, therefore, the sibships of the patients are complete. In such a sample, the recognized methods of searching for an association between disease and birth order are based on the assumption, that, for a null hypothesis, the sample will be randomly distributed among the birth ranks for each sibship size. But in fact the distribution may be non-random, and there are two main causes for this. These are (i) changes in the birth rate of the population, and (ii) changes in the birth rank distribution of the patients between birth and the age-range from which the sample is selected (e.g. differential rates of mortality or migration). The principal aim in the present paper is to illustrate the bias arising from the first of these causes.

Birth Order, Sibship Size, and Risk for Germ-Cell Testicular Cancer

Epidemiology ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 323-329 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorenzo Richiardi ◽  
Olof Akre ◽  
Mats Lambe ◽  
Fredrik Granath ◽  
Scott M. Montgomery ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Testicular Cancer ◽  
Germ Cell ◽  
Birth Order ◽  
Sibship Size

scholarly journals Cohort Trends in the Association Between Sibship Size and Educational Attainment in 26 Low-Fertility Countries

Demography ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 1035-1062 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seongsoo Choi ◽  
Riley Taiji ◽  
Manting Chen ◽  
Christiaan Monden
Keyword(s):  
Educational Attainment ◽  
Low Fertility ◽  
Sibship Size
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