An emerging question in demographic economics is whether there is a link between family size and the geographic … configurations of family size and sibship influence patterns of child-parent proximity is vitally important, as it impacts on issues …. However, when we use multiple births and sibship sex composition as instruments for family size, we do not find any evidence …

Some sociologists argue that non-intact family structures during childhood have a negative effect on adult children … longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel. In a first step, we construct various measures of family structure during … engagement. Both exercises reveal a significant negative relationship between growing up in a non-intact family and children …