siblings share (i.e., family background and neighborhood effects). The average is 28 percent. Hence, entrepreneurship is far …Promoting entrepreneurship has become an increasingly important part of the policy agenda in many countries. The … success of such policies, however, rests in part on the assumption that entrepreneurship outcomes are not fully determined at …

Family and kinship networks are important in helping people get jobs and start companies, as statistics for developing … countries show. Promising new research has begun to assess the positive and negative effects of these family and kinship ties on … entrepreneurial success. To what extent, and why, are family networks used, and do they result in better economic outcomes for …