across children within the family. Older siblings, especially firstborn males, are more likely to migrate, while having more …This paper examines the causal effects of family size and demographic structure on offspring's international migration …. We use rich survey data from Mexico to estimate the impact of sibship size, birth order and sibling composition on …

population of Mexico and exploit presumably exogenous variation in family size induced by biological fertility and infertility …We investigate how fertility and demographic factors affect migration at the household level by assessing the causal … migrating is not equally distributed within a household, but is higher for sons and decreases sharply with birth order. The …

incentives for fertility should account for spillover effects on existing children. … sign of the marginal effects of additional siblings on children’s outcomes, our empirical model allows for an unrestricted … relationship between family size and child outcomes. We find that the conclusion in Black, Devereux, and Salvanes (2005) of no …