Work and family have become either/or propositions for a growing segment of young professionals in business, law, and … but opt out of family. These men and women forego parenting and stable, long-term relationships in surprisingly high … numbers, believing they cannot have both. This Chapter documents the extent of this break from family for professional men and …

What allowed eight siblings from a politically disadvantaged rural family to overcome institutional barriers and … Reform era, when both family background and institutional environment were more favourable? In studying this anomalous case …, whose experiences contradicted the well-documented effects of state policies and yet cannot be explained by parental …

from their family of birth, rendering the equation of adoption one of subtraction, not addition. This article examines the … biological model of adoption that insists on mimicking the nuclear family—erasing one set of parents and replacing them with … another set of parents; and explores the history of adoption “matching”—requiring the new adoptive family to look identical to …

This paper presents the first empirical evidence showing that the marriage of a member of the controlling family adds … value to public corporations. The results, based on a uniquely comprehensive data set from Thailand, show that the family … firm’s stock price increases when the partner is from either a prominent business or a political family. Abnormal returns …

40, or other placebo professions. To establish causality, I exploit Roe v. Wade, state laws restricting abortion … providers, and an index tracking state-level regulation of reproductive care. All three analyses suggest that policies securing …

Family firms depend on a succession of capable heirs to stay afloat. If talent and IQ are inherited, this problem is … mitigated. If, however, progeny talent and IQ display mean reversion (or worse), family firms are eventually doomed. This is the … essence of the critique of family firms in Burkart, Panunzi and Shleifer (2003). Since family firms persist, solutions to this …

investigation is the international expansion of family-owned business. Specifically, the relationship between export behavior …, family control and board composition in the Latin American context is absent in the literature. Using a large and unique … determinants of export behavior of family firms in emerging markets. Our empirical test confirms an endogenous relation between …

Family firms depend on a succession of capable heirs to stay afloat. If talent and IQ are inherited, this problem is … mitigated. If, however, progeny talent and IQ display mean reversion (or worse), family firms are eventually doomed. This is the … essence of the critique of family firms in Burkart, Panunzi and Shleifer (2003). Since family firms persist, solutions to this …