We estimate the effect of television on fertility in Brazil, where soap operas portray small families. We exploit differences in the timing…
Buenos Aires and Chicago grew during the nineteenth century for remarkably similar reasons. Both cities were conduits for moving meat and…
This paper studies kinship band networks as capital market institutions. Membership in a community where individuals are dynastically…
This paper investigates the determinants of group membership, and in particular the effect of income inequality on individual incentives to…
This paper studies what determines group formation and the degree of participation when the population is heterogeneous, both in terms of…