This paper studies the role of the family in determining the skill composition and labor market experiences of … immigrants in the United States. Our theoretical framework, based on the assumption that family migration decisions maximize … household income, shows that the family attenuates the selection characterizing the skills of the immigrant population. The …

This study uses intergenerational data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to investigate the effects of family and …

. Old age, being male or of low income significantly increases the risk of institutionalization. Elderly with a large family …

Numerous previous studies have used sibling correlations to measure the importance of family background as a … Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Our main conclusion is that family background appears to exert greater influence on economic …

transfers, rates of return, and marginal linkage of benefits and taxes for persons of different income levels and family status … security system for different family situations are treated: married versus single persons, number of earners in the family and … variation for different family situations and often dwarf amounts at stake for most families in the recent debates over income …