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Older Siblings Smarter
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» michaeldino replied on Wed Mar 16, 2005 @ 3:28pm |
 Coolness: 69900 | Olde r Siblings Smarter, Norwegian Study Shows
Tue Mar 15, 2005 01:01 PM ET OSLO (Reuters) - First born children in Norway get better education and as adults are more successful in the job market than younger siblings, a Norwegian-U.S. study showed. "It is the birth order and not necessarily the size of the family that is important," said economics professor Kjell Salvanes of the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration. "It is better if you are the first born." Salvanes and two colleagues from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) based their study on census data of Norwegians born between 1912 and 1975. The findings will be published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, a Harvard publication, in May. They found that younger siblings tend to get less schooling than their elders and then end up with lower pay on average and were more likely to be in part-time work, Salvanes said. The findings were likely to hold true in other countries, he said. "In terms of educational attainment, if you are the fourth born instead of the first, you get almost one year less education, and that is quite a lot," Salvanes told Reuters. And first-born children tend to weigh more at birth than their younger brothers and sisters, which is a good predictor for educational success, Salvanes said. Children alone with two adults also tend to get more intellectual stimulation than children in large families who get less parental attention, he said. First-born children seem to learn from teaching their younger siblings, contrary to the common notion that younger children benefit by learning from their elders, Salvanes said. So does that mean big sisters really are smarter? "Yes. It's hard to admit because I have older sisters," Salvanes said. © Reuters 2005. All Rights Reserved. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Suckballs_bebe replied on Wed Mar 16, 2005 @ 11:51pm |
 Coolness: 67410 | IT'S TRUE! |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» neoform replied on Thu Mar 17, 2005 @ 12:01am |
 Coolness: 340590 | haha, dino's the youngest of 4. what a sucker. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» little_sarah replied on Thu Mar 17, 2005 @ 12:30am |
 Coolness: 122365 | sick. i win. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» cvxn replied on Thu Mar 17, 2005 @ 9:11am |
| Coolness: 179570 | YaY! ;)
Mais c'est vrai que quand on enseigne kkchose à quelqu'un d'autre, ça nous aide à apprendre, car on répète ce qu'on a appris... |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» michaeldino replied on Thu Mar 17, 2005 @ 12:35pm |
| Coolness: 69900 | damnit |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Mali replied on Thu Mar 17, 2005 @ 10:14pm |
 Coolness: 203040 | Im still smatttter then Scotty P |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» cactain_steef replied on Fri Mar 18, 2005 @ 1:37pm |
 Coolness: 155600 | i second what sarah said.
AWEEESOME |
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