Career Advancement
Clearly, birth order affects personality, but what about career advancement and success? Several studies show that firstborns and only children usually reach higher educational goals, obtain greater prestige and acquire more net worth, while the middle child is likely to struggle a bit more.
“A child’s position in the family impacts his personality, his behavior, his learning and ultimately, his earning power,” says Michael Grose, author of “Why First Borns Rule the World and Last Borns Want to Change It.” “Most people have an intuitive knowledge that birth order somehow has an impact on development, but they underestimate how far-reaching and just how significant that impact is. “