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Family size, sibling rivalry and migration : evidence from Mexico
Bratti, Massimiliano; Fiore, Simona; Mendola, Mariapia - 2016
teenagers' and young adults' migration outcomes. We find no empirical support for the hypothesis that high fertility drives … using biological fertility (miscarriages) and infertility shocks. Yet, the chances to migrate are not equally distributed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596080
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Intergenerational transmission of health at birth from mothers and fathers
Giuntella, Osea; La Mattina, Giulia; Quintana-Domeque, … - 2019
We use a unique data set of linked birth records from Florida to analyze the intergenerational transmission of health at birth by parental gender. We show that both paternal and maternal birth weights significantly predict the child's birth weight even after accounting for all genetic and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011974446
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The roots of low European employment : family culture?
Algan, Yann (contributor); Cahuc, Pierre (contributor) - 2005
OECD countries faced largely divergent employment rates during the last decades. But the whole bulk of the cross-national and cross-temporal heterogeneity relies on specific demographic groups: prime-age women and younger and older individuals. This paper argues that family labor supply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003155692
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Religion, human capital investments and the family in the United States
Lehrer, Evelyn L. - 2009
This paper critically reviews what is known, based on analyses of micro-level U.S. data, about the role of religion in various interrelated decisions that people make over the life cycle, including investments in secular human capital, cohabitation, marriage, divorce, family size and employment....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872710
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On the origin of the family
Francesconi, Marco; Ghiglino, Christian; Perry, Motty - 2009
This paper presents an overlapping generations model to explain why humans live in families rather than in other pair groupings. Since most non-human species are not familial, something special must be behind the family. It is shown that the two necessary features that explain the origin of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003926735
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Is there such a thing as a family constitution? : A test based on credit rationing
Cigno, Alessandro; Giannelli, Gianna Claudia; Rosati, … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002005366
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The impact of family co-residence and childcare on children's cognitive skill
Deng, Lanfang; Li, Haizheng; Liu, Zhiqiang - 2019
We investigate the impact of family co-residence structure and the allocation of major childcare responsibility across generations on a child's cognitive development. Using data from China, we find that children living in multigenerational families generally perform better in their cognitive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022778
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Estimating intergenerational and assortative processes in extended family data
Collado, María Dolores; Ortuño-Ortín, Ignacio; … - 2022
We quantify intergenerational and assortative processes by comparing different degrees of kinship within the same generation. This "horizontal" approach yields more, and more distant kinship moments than traditional methods, which allows us to account for the transmission of latent advantages in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013330624
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The economics of fertility : a new era
Doepke, Matthias; Hannusch, Anne; Kindermann, Fabian; … - 2022
In this survey, we argue that the economic analysis of fertility has entered a new era. First-generation models of … fertility choice were designed to account for two empirical regularities that, in the past, held both across countries and … across families in a given country: a negative relationship between income and fertility, and another negative relationship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013184241
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Migration policy, African population growth and global inequality
Mountford, Andrew; Rapoport, Hillel - 2014
fertility and education decisions, and hence, population growth in Africa. We present the results from different scenarios for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010382705