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Why do some people become entrepreneurs (and others don't)? Why are firms so heterogeneous, and many firms so small? To start, the paper briefly documents evidence from the empirical literature that the relationship between entrepreneurship and education is U-shaped, that many entrepreneurs...
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I present a theory of couples' job search whereby women sort into lower-paying geographically-dispersed occupations due … experience delayed marriage, higher divorce, and lower earnings. Results corroborate the theory's implication that marriage and …
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choice theory and extant research, and to present a process model articulating the goals, reactions, and decisions involved …
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This paper examines whether children are better off if their parents have stronger social networks. Using data on high-school friendships of parents, we analyze whether the number and characteristics of friends affect the labor-market outcomes of children. While parental friendships formed in...
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