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Lala Carr Steelman, James A. Mercy, Unconfounding the Confluence Model: A Test of Sibship Size and Birth-Order Effects on Intelligence, American Sociological Review, Vol. 45, No. 4 (Aug., 1980), pp. 571-582
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