Birth Order in the Very Long-Run: Estimating Firstborn Premiums between 1850 and 1940

We thank Carver Coleman and J.P. Lefgren for excellent research assistance, Scott Barkowski, Steven Rivkin, and Marian Vidal-Fernandez for helpful comments, and seminar and conference participants at Emory University, Kennesaw State University, the University of Melbourne, the University of New South Wales, and the University of Sydney, the Family and Education Workshop in Uppsala, Sweden, the Social Science History Association Annual Meeting in Chicago, IL, the Society for Economics of the Household Annual Meeting in London, England, the Southeastern Micro Labor Conference in Columbia, SC, and the Southern Economic Association Annual Meeting in Houston, TX. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.