How to sort references by year if they have the same author

Question

I want to chronologically sort the citations where the author is printed only once (same author, 2 or more papers from different years). I am trying with the option "citestyle=authoryear-comp." However, it only works for some cases. Here what I have in my .tex file :

\documentclass [12pt]{article}
\usepackage[backend=bibtex,citestyle=authoryear-comp]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{biblio1.bib}
\begin{document}
\parencite{klaauw.96,klaauw.12}
\parencite{stineb.96,stineb.12}
\end{document}

And here what I have in my .bib file :

@article{klaauw.96,
title={{Female labour supply and marital status decisions: A life-cycle model}},
author={{van der Klaauw}, Wilbert},
journal={Review of Economic Studies},
volume = {63},
number = {2},
pages = {199--235},
year={1996}
}
@article{klaauw.12,
title={{On the Use of Expectations Data in Estimating Structural Dynamic Choice Models}},
author={{van der Klaauw}, Wilbert},
journal={Journal of Labor Economics},
volume = {30},
number = {3},
pages = {521--554},
year={2012}
}
@article{stineb.96,
title={{An empirical investigation of teacher attrition}},
author={{Stinebrickner}, Todd},
journal={Economics of Education Review},
volume = {17},
number = {2},
pages = {127--136},
year={1996}
}
@article{stineb.12,
title={{An analysis of occupational change and departure from the labor force: Evidence of the reasons that teachers leave}},
author={{Stinebrickner}, Todd},
journal={Journal of Human Resources},
volume = {37},
number = {1},
pages = {192--216},
year={2012}
}

I get :

(van der klaauw 1996, 2012)
(Stinebrickner 2012, 1996)

I don't understand why the outcome is not consistent. I think I should get :

(van der klaauw 1996, 2012)
(Stinebrickner 1996, 2012)

What am I doing wrong ?

Answer 1

Note that you are loading only the cite-style authoryear-comp with citestyle=authoryear-comp, you do not load the bibliography style. This you can see if you issue \printbibliography, it will have the format you get with bibstyle=numeric.

Because the bibliography style sets the sorting option, you are effectively using the sorting that numeric imposes and that is sorting=nty (name-title-year), but you expect sorting=nyt.

You have two options

1. Use style=authoryear-comp instead of citestyle=authoryear-comp, that way you also load theappropriate bibliography style
2. Specify sorting=nyt manually.