Oldest children tend to become the richest and most successful — and it could be thanks to their parents
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- Your success in life may be influenced by your birth order, according to economist Sandra E. Black.
- Black points to research she and her colleagues have conducted, which found that firstborns tend to be smarter, richer, and all-around more successful than their younger siblings.
- That's possibly because parents are less invested in parenting with younger kids.
- Still, other researchers have found minimal differences in intelligence and personality between firstborns and later-borns.
An article in the National Bureau of Economics Research Reporter argues that firstborn children are likely to become smarter, more successful, and richer than later-borns.
One possible reason why: Parents are in some ways less invested in parenting after the first go-round.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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