We consider a problem in descriptive kinship systems, namely finding the shortest sequence of terms that describes the kinship between a person and their relatives. The problem reduces to finding the minimum weight path in a labeled graph where the label of the path comes from a regular language. The running time of the algorithm is O(n3 + s), where n and s is the input size and the output size...

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In the half-century following the end of World War II, the social environment surrounding the Japanese family has changed greatly. In particular, environmental changes including the interrelationship between the legal system, industrial structure and demographic factors have had a major impact on the structure and function of the family. Further, it has been said that since the 1960s, the Japan...

Like many African rural-to-urban migrants, Igbo-speaking migrants to cities in Nigeria maintain close ties to their places of origin. 'Home people' constitute a vital core of most migrants' social networks. The institution of kinship enables migrants to negotiate Nigeria's clientelistic political economy. In this context, dichotomous distinctions between rural and urban can be inappropriate ana...

Using the kin altruism framework (Hamilton, 1964), this paper models descendant family firms. Kin altruism makes relatives soft monitors, leading to a “policing problem” within family firms. This policing problem results in both increased managerial diversion and increased monitoring expense at fixed compensation levels. When incentive constraints determine compensation, increasing kinship alwa...

We propose a model for three judgments involving a measure of similarity and dissimilarity between faces: the similarity judgment (Sj), the dissimilarity judgment (Dj), and the kinship judgment (Kj), which has been demonstrated to be strongly related to the Sj (Lorusso et al., 2011; Maloney & Dal Martello, 2006). A previous model for Sj and Kj between faces (see i.e., Maloney & Dal Martello, 20...

Kinship groups can have considerable importance (e.g., generational support, inheritance, and information for key life events). During demographic transitions, kinship networks are reshaped by changes in mortality fertility rates.