Cohabitation has been spreading in the population during the last thirty years, and this is one of the most striking aspects of wider social changes that have taken place throughout the industrialized world. However, this change did not take place uniformly across Europe. The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the current debate around the compatibility of cohabitation experiences with t...

This paper, based on a Multipurpose survey on a large national sample of Italian households which has made possible to analyse parent-child and grandparent-child dyads, explores the impact of marital instability on relationships with adult children and with grandchildren. As in other countries, the impact is more negative in the case of divorce than in case of widowhood and, in both cases, more...

Purpose This paper seeks to determine whether family ties and structure correlate with the ethical moral values that are important underpinnings of economic activities. Design/methodology/approach The analysis uses data from World Values Survey (WVS). Given multilevel nature in a cross-country setting, utilizes linear mixed-effects model maximum likelihood estimation. Findings Families strong t...

This paper examines the e¤ects of social ties on governance. Social ties are per se neutral and merely act as incentive bridges that transmit incentives between individuals. Whether such transmission of incentives improves or undermines governance depends on the particular incentives transmitted. We demonstrate this through a delegated monitoring model where the supervisor is friends with the a...

We analyze the e¤ects of family ties on the incentives for production of e¤ort, where family ties are de…ned as a mixture of true and coerced altruism between family members. We model families as pairs of siblings. Each sibling exerts e¤ort in order to obtain output under uncertainty. A social norm dictates that a sibling with a high output must share a speci…ed amount of this output with his s...

Social networks can capture a variety of relationships among the participants. Two of the most commonly studied are friendship and family, or kinship, ties. Most existing work studies these networks in isolation. Here, we study how these networks can be overlaid. We study the predictive power of overlaying friendship and family ties on a trio of interesting real-world social networks. We show t...

The six-transmembrane channels are thought to be composed of two modules: pore and sensor. Whereas the modular design of the pore has been established, the modularity of the sensor remains hypothetical. As a first step toward establishing the modularity of this region, we searched for genes where the sensor is found independent of the pore and have identified new members of the sensor superfami...

Indonesian family systems do not conform to the prevailing image of Asian families, the predominant arrangements being nuclear and bilateral, with an important matrilineal minority. This paper considers the strength of family ties in two communities, focussing particularly on inter-generational flows of support to and from older members. Data are drawn from a longitudinal anthropological demogr...