Why Do Entrepreneurial Parents Have Entrepreneurial Children?

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Lindquist, Matthew J.; Sol, Joeri; Van Praag, Mirjam
• 署名单位: Stockholm University; University of Amsterdam
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/678493
• 发表日期: 2015
• 页码: 269-296
• 关键词: swedish adoption data; self-employment; intergenerational transmission; role-models; associations; LESSONS; origins; father; son

摘要

We explore the origins of the intergenerational association in entrepreneurship using Swedish adoption data that allow us to quantify the relative importance of prebirth and postbirth factors. We find that parental entrepreneurship increases the probability of children's entrepreneurship by about 60%. For adoptees, both biological and adoptive parents make significant contributions to this association. These contributions, however, are quite different in size. Postbirth factors account for twice as much as prebirth factors in our decomposition of the intergenerational association in entrepreneurship. We investigate several candidate explanations for this large postbirth factor and present suggestive evidence in favor of role modeling.