, we constructed a unique data set of family trees and business groups for nearly 100 of the largest business families in … Thailand. We find a strong positive association between family size and family involvement in the ownership and control of the … family business. The sons of the founders play a central role in both ownership and board membership, especially when the …

. 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 …

who are members of networks that informally sanction hold-ups or children who keep profits "in the family" even if they … prominence of family-owned business groups in developing country manufacturing …

wives in the United States in a family context. Earlier research by Baker and Benjamin (1997) posits a family investment … family with liquidity during this period. Consistent with this model, they find for Canada that immigrant wives work longer …

This paper studies the role of the family in determining the skill composition and labor market experiences of … immigrants in the United States. Our theoretical framework, based on the assumption that family migration decisions maximize … household income, shows that the family attenuates the selection characterizing the skills of the immigrant population. The …

communities. These findings document the effects in Mexico when potential migrants lose access to a strong US labor market …

We use de-identified data from Facebook to study the social integration of Syrian migrants in Germany, a country that … received a large influx of refugees during the Syrian Civil War. We construct measures of migrants' social integration based on … relative rate at which they befriend local Syrian migrants versus German natives (relative friending). We follow the friending …