Family Ties and Labor Markets in the United States and Brazil
利用巴西和美国的调查数据，研究家庭纽带（如父辈和岳父辈的教育水平）对男性工资的影响，发现两国在父辈与岳父辈影响大小上存在差异，并解释为婚姻匹配和女性劳动参与的不同所致。
We use comparable surveys from Brazil and the United States to examine vertical and horizontal connections between families. Motivated by a model of assortative mating and intergenerational transmission of schooling and earnings, we include the schooling of relatives in male wage equations. We find that the effect offather-in-law's schooling is larger than the effect offather's schooling in Brazil, while the opposite is observed in the United States. We interpret these effects as indicators of unobservable worker characteristics, with differences in assortative mating and female labor market activity explaining the differences in the apparent effect of fathers and fathers-in-law in the two countries.