I establish a positive relationship between family ties and civic virtues, as captured by disapproval of tax and … benefit cheating, corruption, and a range of other dimensions of exploiting others for personal gain. I find that family ties … altruistic individuals. The results provide a constructive role for families in promoting family values, which challenge an …

affected by family structure, such as the number of siblings and birth order where individuals grow up. After controlling for …

This paper estimates sibling correlations in cognitive and non-cognitive skills to evaluate the importance of family …-cognitive skills, a restricted maximum likelihood model indicates a strong relationship between family background and skill formation …, more than half of the inequality in cognition can be explained by shared family background. Comparing these findings with …