We characterize the factors that determine who becomes an inventor in the United States,
focusing on the role of inventive ability (“nature”) versus environment (“nurture”). Using …

We explore the origins of the intergenerational association in entrepreneurship using
Swedish adoption data that allow us to quantify the relative importance of prebirth and …

We use data from the National Longitudinal Surveys to investigate the relative importance of
family financial and human capital in the transition into self-employment. Specifically, we …

A model of employment status (self-employed vs. wage-or-salary employed) choice based
on psychological, sociological and cognitive variables resolves the traditional shortcomings …

Roughly 50 per cent of self-employed proprietors are second-generation proprietors. These
individuals acquire informal business experience while growing up in the context of a family …

It is well established that children of self-employed parents are more likely to become self-
employed themselves, but the reasons are still hotly debated. Using Danish register data …

Objective To examine the design characteristics, risk of bias, and reporting adequacy of
pivotal randomised controlled trials of cancer drugs approved by the European Medicines …

We examined the argument that a “property barrier” explains the high degree of self-
employed inheritance between propertied families and their children. Our study used data …

The study contributes to the family business literature by examining the intersection of
succession and opportunities and extends an existing line of research on entrepreneurial …

In this paper we document a statistically significant, marginally greater probability of
admittance into (at least one) medical school for children of doctors as compared to children …