causes of intergenerational links in business ownership and the related issue of how having a family business background …-employed family member prior to starting their business. Conditional on having a self-employed family member, less than 50 percent of … small business owners worked in that family member's business suggesting that it is unlikely that intergenerational links in …

We study the link between family violence and the emotional cues associated with wins and losses by local professional …

The twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Gary Becker's path-breaking Treatise on the Family provides an … occasion to reexamine both the American family and family economics. We begin by discussing how families have changed in recent … been family functions and home production by government programs and market transactions. After discussing recent work in …

estimate the effect of family structure on the time mothers and fathers spend on primary and passive child care and on market … work, using a system of correlated Tobit equations and family structure equations. Estimates from these models indicate …

family earnings, on the other hand, leads to estimates of intergenerational mobility in the Nordic countries which exceed …

. -- wage elasticity ; informal care supply ; labor supply ; elderly care ; family obligations …

inequality in family environments. Schools do little to reduce or enlarge the gaps in skills that are present when children enter …

Past estimates of the effect of family income on child development have often been plagued by endogeneity and … (EITC) over the last two decades. The largest of these changes increased family income by as much as 20%, or approximately … disadvantaged families and are robust to a variety of alternative specifications. -- family income ; poverty ; educational …

We analyze the intergenerational transmission of the strength of religion focusing on the interplay between family and …