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 …

ventures. The effect on the rate of successful post-MBA entrepreneurs, instead, is insignificantly positive. In addition …, sections with few prior entrepreneurs have a considerably higher variance in their rates of unsuccessful entrepreneurs. The …

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 …

The non-pecuniary benefits of managing a small business are a first order consideration for many nascent entrepreneurs …, generating wealth effects independent of financing constraints, (2) non-pecuniary entrepreneurs select into small scale firms, (3 …

differentiates between entrepreneurs and other self-employed to address puzzling gaps that have emerged between theory and evidence … on entry into entrepreneurship. The model predicts—and the data confirm—that entrepreneurs are positively selected on … highly-remunerated human capital, but other self-employed are negatively selected on those same abilities; entrepreneurs are …

do not attract talented-but-reluctant entrepreneurs, but instead attract individuals with personality traits associated …