Inequality starts at home: an introduction to the pecking order

Butterflies in Bialystok, meteors in Manila: the nature-nurture red herring

Love is a pie: birth order and number of siblings

Death, desertion, divorce: when bad things happen to good families

Movin' on up, movin' on out: mobility and sibling differences

Legacies and role models, fat and skin: gender dynamics in the family

Random acts of kindness (and cruelty): outside influences on sibling success

From tribes to markets: conclusions, implications, and insinuations

About the pecking order: a technical appendix.