intergenerational altruism. Thus, immigrants may be self-selected on fertility. Soviet Jews who migrate to Israel despite high migration …. Selection on altruism can explain why historically immigrant-absorbing countries like the U.S. have higher fertility than other …. Selection on altruism also implies that immigrant-absorbing regions will grow faster, or have higher per capita income, or both …

While a large literature is interested in the relationship between family and labor supply outcomes, little is known … in beliefs about how future family outcomes are related to future labor supply. Methodological contributions come from an … longitudinal data, can potentially help address endogeneity issues arising in the estimation of the causal effect of family on …

autonomy. Women who are exposed to the reform are more likely to have met their husbands outside of family networks, they are … the continuation of the family blood line. These results indicate that educational attainment can alter behaviors and …

This paper studies asymmetry of information and transfers within a unique data set of 712 extended family networks from … migrants regarding non-migrants. We develop a static model of asymmetric information that contrasts altruism, pressure and …

altruism and marginal costs, and this heterogeneity is unobservable to the government. In a novel application of nonlinear …