TY - JOUR
T1 - Birth order and delinquency
T2 - Evidence from Denmark and Florida
AU - Breining, Sanni
AU - Doyle, Joseph
AU - Figlio, David N.
AU - Karbownik, Krzysztof
AU - Roth, Jeffrey
N1 - Funding Information:
Local and Regional Government Research, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Summer Institute Economics of Crime Workshop, the CESifo Economics of Education Group Conference, the University of Essex, and the University of Notre Dame. We are grateful to the Florida Departments of Education and Health for providing the deidentified matched data used in this analysis. Sanni Breining gratefully acknowledges financial support from the Centre for Integrated Register-Based Research at Aarhus University (CIRRAU) and the Danish Council for Independent Research. David N. Figlio appreciates funding from the US Department of Education, the National Institutes of Health, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The conclusions expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not represent the positions of the Florida Departments of Education and Health or those of our funders. All errors are our own. Contact the corresponding author, David N. Figlio, at [email protected]. Information concerning access to the data used in this paper is available as supplemental material online.
Funding Information:
We thank Paul Bingley, Dalton Conley, John Donohue, Jens Ludwig, Justin Mc-Crary, Joe Price, and numerous seminar participants at the Danish Institute for Local and Regional Government Research, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Summer Institute Economics of Crime Workshop, the CESifo Economics of Education Group Conference, the University of Essex, and the University of Notre Dame. We are grateful to the Florida Departments of Education and Health for providing the deidentified matched data used in this analysis. Sanni Breining gratefully acknowledges financial support from the Centre for Integrated Register-Based Research at Aarhus University (CIRRAU) and the Danish Council for Independent Research. David N. Figlio appreciates funding from the US Department of Education, the National Institutes of Health, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The conclusions expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not represent the positions of the Florida Departments of Education and Health or those of our funders. All errors are our own. Contact the corresponding author, David N. Figlio, at [email protected]. Information concerning access to the data used in this paper is available as supplemental material online.
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PY - 2020/1/1
Y1 - 2020/1/1
N2 - Little is known about the role birth order plays in delinquency and adult crime outcomes that carry significant externalities. We use rich data sets from Denmark and Florida to examine these outcomes and explore potential mechanisms. Despite large environmental differences between the areas, we find remarkably consistent results: in families with two or more children, secondborn boys are 20%–40% more likely to be disciplined in school and enter the criminal justice system than are their firstborn male siblings. We rule out health at birth and school quality as mechanisms but find evidence for the role of parental time investment.
AB - Little is known about the role birth order plays in delinquency and adult crime outcomes that carry significant externalities. We use rich data sets from Denmark and Florida to examine these outcomes and explore potential mechanisms. Despite large environmental differences between the areas, we find remarkably consistent results: in families with two or more children, secondborn boys are 20%–40% more likely to be disciplined in school and enter the criminal justice system than are their firstborn male siblings. We rule out health at birth and school quality as mechanisms but find evidence for the role of parental time investment.
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U2 - 10.1086/704497
DO - 10.1086/704497
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85074810793
SN - 0734-306X
VL - 38
SP - 95
EP - 142
JO - Journal of Labor Economics
JF - Journal of Labor Economics
IS - 1
ER -