Birth Order and College Major in Sweden.
Previous research on birth order has consistently shown that later-borns have lower educational attainment than first-borns; however, it is not known whether there are birth order patterns in college major. Given evidence that parents disproportionately invest in first-born children, there are likel...
| Publicado en: | Social Forces Vol. 96; no. 2; pp. 629 - 660 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Dec2017
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