: we examine new outcomes related to labor force participation, human capital, and family formation and we do not restrict … men's educational or family outcomes. The results are quite different for women: we find effects on both career and family …

workplace "family friendliness" and analyze the effect of more family friendly workplaces on the career gaps between mothers and … fathers. We find that exogenously moving mothers to more family friendly workplaces would raise their wages and labor income … the parental gender gap in wages and income. At the same time, working in more family friendly workplaces would not reduce …

, 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 …

estimate impacts from an expansion of group lending at 110% APR by the largest microlender in Mexico. Average effects on a rich …

extended family. Using household panel data from the Progresa program in rural Mexico, we exploit information on the paternal … intra generational family links of each household to others in the same village. We then exploit the randomized research … enrolment vary according to the presence and characteristics of extended family. We find that Progresa only raises secondary …