@mastersthesis {580466,
	title = {Gender and Sibling Dynamics in the Intergenerational Transmission of Entrepreneurship},
	year = {Working Paper},
	type = {PhD Dissertation Chapter},
	abstract = {This project uses gender and sibling dynamics to explore the intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship.\&nbsp; I find that the transmission of self-employment from fathers to daughters is significantly reduced when there are sons in the family.\&nbsp; I interpret this as evidence that the intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship is driven at least in part by costly investments by parents, which can be crowded out by brothers.\&nbsp; I investigate specific types of parental investments {\textendash} transfers of money, businesses, and human capital {\textendash} that potentially underlie this transmission and conclude that sons crowd out human capital acquisition by daughters.\&nbsp; If all daughters of self-employed men experienced the {\textquotedblleft}sisters-only{\textquotedblright} level of transmission, the overall gender gap in self-employment would be reduced by nearly 20 percent.},
	author = {Elizabeth Mishkin}
}
