Gender and Sibling Dynamics in the Intergenerational Transmission of Entrepreneurship

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Mishkin, Elizabeth
• 署名单位: Uber Technologies, Inc.
• 刊物名称: MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0025-1909
• DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.2020.3790
• 发表日期: 2021
• 页码: 6116-6135
• 关键词: Entrepreneurship; GENDER; economics: microeconomic behavior

摘要

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 or redirected toward brothers. I investigate specific types of parental investments-transfers of money, businesses, and human capital-that potentially underlie this transmission and conclude that sons reduce human-capital acquisition by daughters. If all daughters of self-employed men experienced the sisters-only level of transmission, the overall gender gap in selfemployment would be reduced by roughly 15%.