Does birth spacing affect personality?

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Ghana's national health insurance, free maternal healthcare and facility‐based delivery services

“…Also, higher birth order signifies larger household size and pressure on economic resources. In other words, family resources get diluted with increasing births (Golsteyn & Magnée, 2017; Mechoulan & Wolff, 2015), therefore resource allocation for births at higher orders may reduce. Moreover, it is documented that multiple births reduce the use of maternal healthcare (Makate, 2016) and hence lead to reduction in the likelihood of expectant mother's enrolment on health insurance.…”

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Challenges in research on preferences and personality traits: Measurement, stability, and inference

“…Other psychological traits remain stable. Golsteyn and Magnée (2016) use miscarriages as an instrument for age difference between siblings and show that a larger age gap has negative effects on personality traits (i.e., more disorganized behavior, more neuroticism, and more introversion). Mandel et al (2017) contribute to this Special Issue by investigating time-inconsistent behavior and present a perspective that is complementary to preference stability: a stable utility function can explain why predicted future behavior deviates from actual future behavior without any changes occurring except for time passing.…”

Does Sibling Gender Affect Personality Traits?

“…It has been shown to correlate positively among others with being employed, having a skilled job, savings, and life satisfaction. Parents, 1 See, e.g., Barclay, 2015;Bjerkedal, Kristensen, Skejeret, & Brevik, 2007;Black, Devereux, & Salvanes, 2007;Buckles & Munnich, 2012;Golsteyn & Magnée, 2017;Hotz & Pantano, 2015;Kalmijn & van de Werfhorst, 2016;Rohrer, Egloff, & Schmuckle, 2015. 2 Only from 1978 onwards, trustworthy ultrasound machines were available to determine the gender of a child during the pregnancy.…”