Arbeitspapier
Birth Order and Health of Newborns: What Can We Learn from Danish Registry Data?
Research has shown a strong negative correlation between birth order and cognitive test scores, IQ, and educational outcomes. We ask whether birth order differences in health are present at birth using matched administrative data for more than 1,000,000 children born in Denmark between 1981 and 2010. Using family fixed effects models, we find a positive and robust birth order effect; lower parity children are less healthy at birth. Looking at the potential mechanisms, we find that during earlier pregnancies women have higher labor market attachment, behave more risky in terms of smoking, receive more prenatal care, and are diagnosed with more medical pregnancy complications. Yet, none of these factors explain the birth order differences at birth. This positive birth order effect at birth stands in stark contrast to a negative birth order effect in educational performance. Once we control for health at birth, the negative birth order effect in educational performance further increases.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: CINCH Series ; No. 2015/13
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Health: General
Health Behavior
Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse
Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
- Thema
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Birth order
parity
child health
fetal health
health at birth
education
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Brenoee, Anne Ardila
Molitor, Ramona
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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University of Duisburg-Essen, CINCH - Health Economics Research Center
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Essen
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2015
- DOI
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doi:10.17185/duepublico/70922
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Brenoee, Anne Ardila
- Molitor, Ramona
- University of Duisburg-Essen, CINCH - Health Economics Research Center
Entstanden
- 2015
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