This paper examines the causal effects of family size and demographic structure on offspring's international migration … migration. The positive correlation between sibship size and migration disappears when endogeneity of family size is addressed … across children within the family. Older siblings, especially firstborn males, are more likely to migrate, while having more …

relationship between family size and child outcomes. We find that the conclusion in Black, Devereux, and Salvanes (2005) of no … family size effect does not hold after relaxing their linear specification in family size. We find nonzero effects of family … instrumental variables estimation instrumenting family size with twin births. Estimation using a unrestricted specification for the …