who are members of networks that informally sanction hold-ups or children who keep profits "in the family" even if they … prominence of family-owned business groups in developing country manufacturing. …

first child raised fertility and increased the probability that the family was living without a father. We find that for our …

Family and social networks are widely believed to influence important life decisions but identifying their causal …

to higher concentration of low-skill migrants. Interestingly, diasporas explain majority of the variability of migration … flows and selection. This suggests that, without changing the generosity of family reunion programs, education …

We use de-identified data from Facebook to study the social integration of Syrian migrants in Germany, a country that … received a large influx of refugees during the Syrian Civil War. We construct measures of migrants’ social integration based on … relative rate at which they befriend local Syrian migrants versus German natives (relative friending). We follow the friending …

abroad. Local diasporas, social media, and family ties to the origins facilitate the transmission, while social integration …