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

. Yet the family (and decision-making in families) is typically ignored in macroeconomic models. In this chapter, we argue … that family economics should be an integral part of macroeconomics, and that accounting for the family leads to new answers … fluctuations, and argue that changes in family structure in recent decades have important repercussions for the determination of …

This paper studies intergenerational mobility the transmission of family influence. We develop and estimate measures of …

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 …

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 …