improved the quality of entrepreneur- ship. Compared with entrepreneurs in other time periods, firms founded by the reluctant … entrepreneurs induced by the SOE layoffs have better performances. To explain these results, we present a simple model of …

, which results in families of otherwise similar children receiving substantially different refunds during the first year of … first child leads to persistent increases in family income that likely contribute to the downstream effects on children …

Using administrative data on wealth, firm ownership structure, and migration in Sweden and Denmark, we document …

daughters' socioeconomic outcomes and those of their biological and rearing parents. Our analysis focuses on children raised in …

generation influences the educational attainment of their children. To address this question we use Swedish population data on … attenuated. Nevertheless, we do find that children who share the same birth order and gender as their parents attain slightly …

the causal impact of parental housing wealth during different childhood periods on children's long-run wealth accumulation … during early-childhood is transmitted to children's overall and housing wealth in adulthood, respectively. The corresponding … increases in adult children's home ownership, educational attainment, and earnings. However, earnings and education can explain …

entrepreneurs, controlling for the density of firms in their current location. Conditional on becoming entrepreneurs, the same … individuals are also more likely to be successful entrepreneurs, as measured by business income or firm productivity. Strikingly … interpretation, we find that entrepreneurs who at the age of 18 lived in areas with a higher firm density tend to adopt better …