The Impact of Family Size and Sibling Structure on the Great Mexico-U.S. Migration

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We investigate how fertility and demographic factors affect migration at the household level by assessing the causal effects of sibship size and structure on offspring's international migration. We use a rich demographic survey on the population of Mexico and exploit presumably exogenous variation in family size induced by biological fertility and infertility shocks. We further exploit cross-sibling differences to identify birth order, sibling-sex, and sibling-age composition effects on migration. We find that large families per se do not boost offspring out-migration. Yet, the likelihood of migrating is not equally distributed within a household, but is higher for sons and decreases sharply with birth order. The female migration disadvantage also varies with sibling composition by age and gender.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: GLO Discussion Paper ; No. 392

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth ; International Migration ; Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
• Thema: International Migration ; Mexico ; Family Size ; Sibling Structure

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Bratti, Massimiliano ; Fiore, Simona ; Mendola, Mariapia
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Global Labor Organization (GLO)
• (wo): Essen
• (wann): 2019

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/202640
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ