Feel like your parents always favored your older sibling? They might have benefited from that more than you realize. A new study suggests all that extra attention makes first-born children smarter ...

They found that those who were the first to be born in their family were 10 per cent more likely to suffer from short-sightedness, or myopia, than people who had an older sibling. And they were 20 per ...

First-born children earn measurably higher incomes than their younger siblings on average. This pattern holds across diverse cultures, socioeconomic backgrounds, and family sizes. Birth order itself ...

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Colleen and Jaime Baro were basking Monday in the glow of their new and first-born baby, Andrew. “He’s got my hair,” Jaime Baro said with a smile of the thick, dark brown waves that framed Drew’s ...

Feel like your parents always favored your older sibling? They might have benefited from that more than you realize. A new study suggest all that extra attention makes first-born children smarter than ...