Chang, Simon; Zhang, Xiaobo - 2013
We use a natural experiment in Taiwan to test whether mating competition is a major motive for entrepreneurship. With … the defeat of the Kuomintang Party in China, more than one million soldiers and civilians, mainly young males, retreated … to Taiwan in the late 1940s. Initially, the soldiers were not allowed to marry. The ban was relaxed in 1959, however …