Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/300023 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 11095
Publisher: 
CESifo GmbH, Munich
Abstract: 
The nineteenth-century American family experienced tremendous demographic, economic, and institutional changes. By using birth order effects as a proxy for family environment, and linked census data on men born between 1835 and 1910, we study how the family's role in human capital production evolved over this period. We find firstborn premiums for occupational outcomes, marriage, and fertility that are similar across census waves. Our results indicate that the returns to investments in the family environment were stable over a long period.
Subjects: 
birth order
parental investments
occupation outcomes
intergenerational mobility
marriage
fertility
JEL: 
J13
J62
N30
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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