A study finds no correlation between birth order and risk-taking in adulthood based on analysis of birth ranks of 187 explorers and revolutionaries, risk preferences of 1,507 participants in the Basel-Berlin Risk Study, and personal risk assessment data from the German Socio-Economic Panel of approximately 11,000 households; the findings suggest that birth order and family dynamics do not influence risk-taking in adulthood, according to the authors.
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Article #18-14153: "No effect of birth order on adult risk taking," by Tomás Lejarraga, Renato Frey, Daniel D. Schnitzlein, and Ralph Hertwig.
MEDIA CONTACT: Tomás Lejarraga, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Palma, SPAIN; email: tomas.lejarraga@uib.eu
Journal
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences