We hypothesize that individuals with a larger social-family network are more likely to choose self-employment. We test … this hypothesis using data on temporary rural-urban migrants in China. The size of a migrant's social-family network is … social-family network exactly because he is self-employed. For this reason, a simple correlation between the probability of …

incorporating dynamics among family members- mother, father and children. Single equation, bivariate, and four-state (multivariate …

inequality in family environments. Schools do little to reduce or enlarge the gaps in skills that are present when children enter … growing fraction of American children across all race and ethnic groups is being raised in dysfunctional families. Investment …

We document the educational integration of immigrant children with a focus on the link between family size and … groups. First, for immigrant adolescents, we show family-size adjusted convergence to almost native levels of higher … that between one third and the complete difference in family-size adjusted educational outcomes between immigrants from …

We document the educational integration of immigrant children with a focus on the link between family size and … groups. First, for immigrant adolescents, we show family-size adjusted convergence to almost native levels of higher … that between one third and the complete difference in family-size adjusted educational outcomes between immigrants from …

its family-based admissions system or move towards a skills-based system. This paper analyzes these issues culling … investment ; skill transferability ; opportunity cost ; learning transferability ; family-based admissions ; permanence …

. Employing family fixed-effects, we examine final course grades and national standardized test scores in Swedish and math by …