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• Take a Younger Sibling to Play Day

  Posted Tuesday, February 12, 2008 1:01 PM By Emily Bazelon
  
  I've written before about the effect of birth order on intelligence. It's not my favorite topic, because it pits older siblings against younger siblings and inevitably makes parents feel guilty. Here's a new study from Brigham Young University economics Read More...
  Filed under: parenting, siblings, birth order

• More on Sibling Rank and IQ

  Posted Friday, December 07, 2007 11:50 AM By Emily Bazelon
  
  There's a great discussion going on in the Fray about the varying IQs of older and younger siblings , featuring Norwegian study author Petter Kristensen and psychology writer Judith Rich Harris. Check it out . Read More...
  Filed under: family, children, siblings

• Sibling rank and IQ

  Posted Monday, December 03, 2007 11:33 AM By Emily Bazelon
  
  I wrote last summer about a Norwegian study on birth order that was being treated as definitive proof that first-born kids have higher IQs than their siblings--and that the IQ edge is due to social rank, not biology. (Actually, the results are about brothers Read More...
  Filed under: family, children, siblings

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