The family is a key socio-economic unit in society. The nature of its organization is shaped by cultural values and … family, values, norms) tend to reproduce themselves over time, revealing a certain inability to make the necessary … adjustments to new challenges. This chapter argues that in familistic societies - where family ties are strongly rooted in …

This paper examines the causal effects of family size and demographic structure on offspring's international migration … teenagers' and young adults' migration outcomes. We find no empirical support for the hypothesis that high fertility drives … migration. The positive correlation between sibship size and migration disappears when endogeneity of family size is addressed …