endogeneity suspicion. For instance, ability and occupational choice are mentioned as driving both the level of (entrepreneurial … endogeneity is really present, whether it matters and whether the selected instruments make sense. Using Bayesian methods, we find … that the relationship between education and entrepreneurial income is indeed endogenous and that the impact of endogeneity …

endogeneity suspicion. For instance, ability and occupational choice are mentioned as driving both the level of (entrepreneurial … endogeneity is really present, whether it matters and whether the selected instruments make sense. Using Bayesian methods, we find … that the relationship between education and entrepreneurial income is indeed endogenous and that the impact of endogeneity …

explain the difference in fertility between these two groups using a switching regression analysis, which enables us to … more children than cohabiting couples primarily because marriage provides stronger incentives for specialization in …

Despite a steady increase in the number of self-employed women, the so-called gender gap has hardly diminished. Based … on the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS), the present study analyses if and to which extent, family …-induced employment breaks - which from a theoretical perspective go along with a loss of human capital - explain women's lower start …

monthly self-employment earnings can be traced back to women working fewer hours than men. In contrast variables like family … that self-employed women do not earn less because they are seeking work-family balance rather than profits. Differences in …

-violent marriages, the vast majority of violent marriages end in divorce, and employment rates are lower for women who experience abuse …. We then construct a sequential model of employment, marriage and abuse. The results indicate abuse is the primary factor … experiments suggest men are more responsive to policies designed to increase the costs of abuse than women are to policies …

far from being achieved across the countries considered. Postponement of family formation and motherhood has spread, but … formation and transition to motherhood. Our findings suggest that convergence in patterns of union formation and first birth is …

Four decades ago, Nathan Glazer and Daniel Patrick Moynihan made the argument that the black family "was not strong … examining whether racial differences in family business backgrounds can explain why black-owned businesses lag substantially … that black business owners have a relatively disadvantaged family business background compared with white business owners …

We hypothesize that individuals with a larger social-family network are more likely to choose self-employment. We test … this hypothesis using data on temporary rural-urban migrants in China. The size of a migrant's social-family network is … faces two challenges. First, there is an endogeneity problem in that a migrant may want to develop and maintain a large …

sample of British women born in 1970, we estimate an independent competing risks hazard model of fertility and cohabitation …This paper investigates the effect of earnings and employment opportunities on pre-marital fertility. Using data from a … decisions. Our results show that individual earnings opportunities are negatively related to pre-marital fertility but do not …