, we constructed a unique data set of family trees and business groups for nearly 100 of the largest business families in … Thailand. We find a strong positive association between family size and family involvement in the ownership and control of the … family business. The sons of the founders play a central role in both ownership and board membership, especially when the …

. Yet the family (and decision-making in families) is typically ignored in macroeconomic models. In this chapter, we argue … that family economics should be an integral part of macroeconomics, and that accounting for the family leads to new answers … fluctuations, and argue that changes in family structure in recent decades have important repercussions for the determination of …

diversified and family controlled; but the others were tightly focused and had widely held apex firms; (3) US business groups …

We examine what determines the family income that men and women experience over their adult lives. To this end, we … of important questions in labor and family economics, including the effects of education and unobserved permanent … rates, work hours, earnings, marriage and spouse characteristics and family income to various shocks. Marital status has a …

others is beneficial solely because the costs of household public goods can be shared. In other words, we abstract from intra-family …

wives in the United States in a family context. Earlier research by Baker and Benjamin (1997) posits a family investment … family with liquidity during this period. Consistent with this model, they find for Canada that immigrant wives work longer …