The third novel by Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed, is a work of family drama historical fiction that examines factors surrounding one lead to and reverberate from action: poor sells their youngest daughter wealthy couple in Kabul. Set Afghanistan, spans over fifty 50 years four generations. Hosseini includes several narrative voices, rather than just story’s main family. multiple nar...

We identify which types of ties best distinguish pairs of Chilean firms in the same business group from pairs of Chilean firms that are not group brethren. Overlap in owners, indirect equity holdings, and director interlocks are especially strong delineators of group boundaries. Family connections and direct equity holdings do not do as good a job of distinguishing group boundaries. These findi...

Spouses' emotional ties to family early in marriage are linked to marital outcomes, but little is known about how these ties affect marital stability and whether these effects vary by race and gender. The present study examines the links between emotional ties to family of origin and in-laws in the first year of marriage and marital stability over the first 16 years of marriage. Data were colle...

We study the role of the most primitive institution in society: the family. Its organization and relationship between generations shape values formation, economic outcomes, and influences national institutions. We use a measure of family ties, constructed from the World Values Survey, to review and extend the literature on the effect of family ties on economic behavior and economic attitudes. W...

The literature on how social ties influence sexual and reproductive health is well established; however, one significant limitation of this research is the influence of social ties to hometowns among migrant women. Drawing from cross-border social ties literature, the objective of this study is to assess how cross-border social ties influence use of family planning and institutional deliveries ...

Alesina and Giuliano (J. Econ. Growth, 15(2), 2010) illustrate that strong family ties lead to disruptive socio-economic outcomes including lower geographical mobility and reduced labor force participation of young and female individuals. We extend their analysis by arguing that the effect of strong family ties on economic behavior depends on a country’s level of economic and institutional deve...