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Title: Gender and Sibling Dynamics in the Intergenerational Transmission of Entrepreneurship

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Publication Year: 2017

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Abstract: This project uses gender and sibling dynamics to explore the intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship. I find that the transmission of self-employment from fathers to daughters is significantly reduced when there are sons in the family. I interpret this as evidence that the intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship is driven at least in part by costly investments by parents, which can be crowded out by brothers. I investigate specific types of parental investments – transfers of money, businesses, and human capital – that potentially underlie this transmission and conclude that sons crowd out human capital acquisition by daughters. If all daughters of self-employed men experienced the “sisters-only” level of transmission, the overall gender gap in self-employment would be reduced by nearly 20 percent.

Url: https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/emishkin/files/mishkin_entrepreneurship_jmp.pdf

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Authors: Mishkin, Elizabeth

Publisher: Harvard University

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Topics: Family and Marriage, Gender

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