On the origins of entrepreneurship: evidence from sibling correlations

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• dc.contributor.author Vladasel, Theodor
• dc.contributor.author Lindquist, Matthew J.
• dc.contributor.author Sol, Joeri
• dc.contributor.author van Praag, C. Mirjam
• dc.date.accessioned 2020-07-30T07:56:43Z
• dc.date.available 2020-07-30T07:56:43Z
• dc.date.issued 2020
• dc.description.abstract Despite the consensus that entrepreneurship runs in the family, we lack evidence regarding the total importance of family and community background, as well as the relative importance of different background influences that affect entrepreneurship. We draw on human capital formation theories to argue that families and communities provide a salient context for the development of individual entrepreneurial skills and preferences, beyond the existing focus on parental entrepreneurship. We posit that early influences are more important than later influences and propose a hierarchy of family influences, whereby genes have the largest explanatory power, followed by parental entrepreneurship, neighborhoods, and parental resources, and finally by parental immigration, family structure, and sibling peers. Finally, we argue that the higher human and financial capital intensity of incorporated relative to unincorporated entrepreneurship predictably alters the hierarchy of family influences, as does gender. Sibling correlations estimated on Swedish register data confirm our hypotheses.
• dc.description.sponsorship Lindquist gratefully acknowledges funding from the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet 2017-01941).
• dc.format.mimetype application/pdf
• dc.identifier.citation Vladasel T, Lindquist MJ, Sol J, van Praag M. On the origins of entrepreneurship: evidence from sibling correlations. J Bus Ventur. 2020 Mar 12:106017. DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusvent.2020.106017
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusvent.2020.106017
• dc.identifier.issn 0883-9026
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/45221
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Elsevier
• dc.relation.ispartof Journal of Business Venturing. 2020 Mar 12:106017
• dc.rights © 2020 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/BY/4.0/).
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• dc.rights.uri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/BY/4.0/
• dc.subject.keyword Entrepreneurship
• dc.subject.keyword Self-employment
• dc.subject.keyword Family background
• dc.subject.keyword Sibling correlations
• dc.title On the origins of entrepreneurship: evidence from sibling correlations
• dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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