Your Birth Order Affects Your Future

Younger siblings enjoy real advantages in life.

They are born to parents who are generally wealthier and more experienced than when the firstborn arrived. Older siblings can serve as role models, mentors and productive rivals. The ranks of elite athletes are filled with many more younger siblings than older brothers and sisters.

"There are a lot of reasons why second-borns should do better," said Joe Price, an economics professor at Utah’s Brigham Young University, whose own second-born son is ranked second in the state at his grade level after years competing with his older brother in chess.

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