neighbourhood careers of children once they have left the parental home. We use a quasi-experimental family design exploiting … different than synthetic pairs but the difference gets smaller with time, indicating a quicker attenuation of the family effect …

motivation, which assess beliefs about math importance for the job market, and student math anxiety. The presence of one family …

extended family. Using data from the PROGRESA program in Mexico, we exploit information on the paternal and maternal surnames … family links of each household to others in the same village. We then exploit the randomized research design of the PROGRESA … the characteristics of extended family. We find PROGRESA only raises secondary enrolment among households that are …

. This change in living arrangements, which involves the extended family of the migrant, has two relevant implications for …

This paper examines the causal effects of family size and demographic structure on offspring's international migration …. We use rich survey data from Mexico to estimate the impact of sibship size, birth order and sibling composition on … migration. The positive correlation between sibship size and migration disappears when endogeneity of family size is addressed …

bargaining power within marriage for women most affected by war deaths. The impact of sex ratio imbalance on marriage and family …

In this study we provide a new examination of the incentive effects of welfare rules on family structure. Focusing on … family is treated. In an empirical analysis conducted over the period 1996 to 2004 that correctly matches family structure … outcomes to welfare rules, we find significant effects of several welfare policies on family structure, both work …

terms of their income. However, interactions between the individual, the childhood family and neighbourhood context and the …. It is likely that part of the effects attributed to neighbourhoods, are actually effects of the family in which someone … was brought up. This study uses a sibling design to disentangle family and neighbourhood effects on income, and synthetic …

children choosing self-employment as a way of balancing work and family commitments. This paper studies the relationship … between children and female self-employment in a country with family friendly policies and a generous welfare system: Sweden … women since there are other institutions in place aiming at facilitating the combination of work and family. Using Swedish …