SPOUSES, CHILDREN, AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: da Fonseca, Joao Galindo; Berube, Charles
• 署名单位: Universite de Montreal
• 刊物名称: INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0020-6598
• DOI: 10.1111/iere.12626
• 发表日期: 2023
• 页码: 1165-1199
• 关键词: labor; INEQUALITY; fertility; marriage; MARKETS; search; women

摘要

We study the relationship between family and entrepreneurship decisions. Family influences entrepreneurship decisions via two channels: (i) Spouses work more in case of business failure and (ii) children increase the cost of failure. We use administrative matched owner-employer-employee-spouse data to estimate the predictions derived from our model. We find evidence that marriage decreases entry into entrepreneurship and increases average firm size, consistent with mechanism (ii) dominating the (i). Using direct information on children, we find that more children decrease entry into entrepreneurship and increase average firm size.