Drawing on two data sources from across Europe, we show that both bequest motives of parents and children’s gender composition shape unequal divisions of bequests. First, the Survey on Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe reveals that observed bequests are divided unequally when children...

We analyze the impact of unexpected health shocks - defined as the sudden diagnosis of cancer, stroke, or heart attack - on the probability of couple dissolution using longitudinal representative data on older individuals (50+). We leverage the longitudinal nature of the HRS and utilize a...

This paper examines the gendered impact of divorce on earnings and the role of the social policy context in shaping this relationship. In particular, it focuses on a policy reform enacted in Germany in 2008 that overturned previous ex-spousal support rules. Data come from the administrative...

Husbands are often key stakeholders and influential in women's enterprise performance. Intrahousehold constraints and relational dynamics may contribute to a gender gap in entrepreneurship. This mixed-methods paper uses a randomized controlled trial and qualitative research to examine whether...

Two mechanisms have been proposed to explain sex selection in India: son preference in which parents desire a male heir and daughter aversion in which dowry payments make parents worse off with girls. Our model incorporates both mechanisms, providing micro-foundations, based on the organization...

The EU's action on rare diseases strives to improve access to knowledge, diagnosis, and treatment of patients with rare diseases through funding research on rare diseases and newborn screening, making available dedicated tools, such as the telemedicine tool, pooling of resources and cooperation.

The EU's action on rare diseases strives to improve access to knowledge, diagnosis, and treatment of patients with rare diseases through funding research on rare diseases and newborn screening, making available dedicated tools, such as the telemedicine tool, pooling of resources and cooperation.

This paper presents sibling fixed effects estimates of the relationship between school exclusion and subsequent academic achievement from population-wide administrative data on English secondary school students. It complements a growing base of quasi-experimental and individual fixed effects...

This paper investigates the causal effect of age at marriage on women's mental health in Nepal, focusing specifically on anxiety. Using nationally representative data from the latest round of the Nepal Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS), we address endogeneity in marriage timing by...

This study presents the development and validation of the Family Collective Psychological Ownership Scale (FCPO-S), an innovative instrument designed to measure the shared sense of ownership that family members feel toward their business. This scale captures two critical dimensions: family firm...

Power dynamics play a pivotal role in shaping governance, decision-making, and interpersonal relationships within family businesses, which operate as hybrid organizations at the intersection of family and business systems. This paper examines the unique manifestations of power in the business...

It is often assumed that family ownership, which consists of individuals who share a common history and values, is homogenous. However, family owners exhibit varied patterns of engagements toward ownership because of differences in their roles, goals, needs and expectations within the family and...

This paper presents sibling fixed effects estimates of the relationship between school exclusion and subsequent academic achievement from population-wide administrative data on English secondary school students. It complements a growing base of quasi-experimental and individual fixed effects...

This study explores and compares the impact of family responsibility on job performance among internal migrant and non-migrant female workers. A total of 155 questionnaires were collected from female housekeeping attendants working in hotels in Guangzhou, China. The analysis used partial least...

In this study, Prof. Dr. Gerhard Kraft examines family foundations from a civil law, tax law and economic perspective. The author dispels widespread misconceptions about this legal institution, demonstrating that it is not merely a tax planning device, but rather a complex instrument that can be...

Using millions of siblings in the U.S., we detail three findings that quantify whether siblings influence one another to vote in national elections. First, and descriptively, younger siblings are 10 percentage points (50 percent) more likely to vote in their first eligible election when their...

We use whole-population linked administrative data from Australia to ex- amine the economic and mental health impacts of IVF treatment and invol- untary childlessness. Leveraging detailed information on fertility treatment, income, and prescription drug use, we implement a dynamic...

The relationship between a chief executive officer’s childhood experience of family decline and his or her firm’s social responsibility rating was explored using data on more than 1000 Chinese listed firms. Such childhood experience is shown to predict better CSR ratings. This may be because...

We analyze the impact of unexpected health shocks—defined as the sudden diagnosis of cancer, stroke, or heart attack—on the probability of couple dissolution using longitudinal representative data on older individuals (50+). We leverage the longitudinal nature of the HRS and utilize a...