We hypothesize that individuals with a larger social-family network are more likely to choose self-employment. We test … this hypothesis using data on temporary rural-urban migrants in China. The size of a migrant's social-family network is … social-family network exactly because he is self-employed. For this reason, a simple correlation between the probability of …

married women more likely to be employed and to secure suitable jobs after family migration. We find no evidence for …

that short-term migration by males reduces the probability of intergenerational persistence by 20% in rural India …

Using two nationally representative datasets from household surveys conducted in India in 2005 and 2012, the present … endogenous in India because parents continue to have children until they have a son. To redress this potential endogeneity, we …

The poor state of child health in India has generated a number of puzzles that have received attention in the …-life survival advantage in India accruing to later birth orders, which they interpret as the result of a pattern of improving … set of demographic surveys, a disadvantage in child height for later birth orders in India relative to Africa's birth …

to complement the traditional family care in rural China. …

framework can be used, for example, in predicting the differential relationship between urbanization and inequality in India …