effect of private-school competition on students' entrepreneurial intentions. We exploit Catholic-Church resistance to state … instrumental-variable results suggest that a 10 percentage-point higher private-school share raises students' entrepreneurial … shares, students' academic skills, and parents' entrepreneurial occupation …

correlated across family members, in particular between brothers. Extensions of the model show a distinctive effect of mothers …

family background nor labor market characteristics appear to be strongly associated with the gender education gap. There is …

Using birth certificates matched to schooling records for Florida children born 1992 – 2002, we assess whether family …. Evidence supports that this is a causal effect of the post-natal environment; family disadvantage is unrelated to the gender …

This paper conducts a cross-national econometric analysis of intra-family location and caregiving patterns. First, we … assess, from an international perspective, the relationship between family structure and the geographic proximity between … adult children and their parents. We then examine whether differences in family structure affect the amount of informal care …

Inheritance taxes may induce heirs to discontinue family firms. Because firm dissolution incurs transaction costs, a … preferential tax treatment of transferred family businesses seems to be desirable from a macroeconomic viewpoint. The support of … entrepreneurship. Here, we investigate analytically and quantitatively the trade-off between transaction costs saved and creative …

an application to the estimation of panel data models with an infinite number of weak factors and a finite number of …

This paper proposes a novel regularisation method for the estimation of large covariance matrices, which makes use of …