This paper offers new evidence on the relationship between contractual institutions, family management, and aggregate … decide between family and professional management when the latter are subject to contracting frictions. The paper tests the … environments are more likely to be family managed. These firms are on average 25 percent less productive than professionally …

support, and financial help provided to and received from other family members by ageing and elderly Europeans. The analysis … young adult children. It is shown that the likelihood of the exchange of support between family generations is highest in …

of family background on children?s education in villages, with a focus on the role of nonfarm occupations. The analysis … occupation. The role of family background remains relatively stable across generations for girls, but for boys, family background …

traditional measures of household education investments. To assess the quantity-quality tradeoff, the paper instruments for family … size using the distance to the nearest family planning center. IV estimation results based on data from the Vietnam … investment and is robust to different definitions of family size, identification strategies, and model specifications that …