Why Do Entrepreneurial Parents Have Entrepreneurial Children?
利用瑞典收养数据，量化了先天和后天因素在创业代际关联中的相对重要性，发现后天因素（如榜样作用）的影响是先天因素的两倍。
We explore the origins of the intergenerational association in entrepreneurship using Swedish adoption data that allow us to quantify the relative importance of pre-birth and post-birth factors. We find that parental entrepreneurship increases the probability of children’s entrepreneurship by about 60%. For adoptees, both biological and adoptive parents make significant contributions to this association. These contributions, however, are quite different in size. Post-birth factors account for twice as much as pre-birth factors in our decomposition of the intergenerational association in entrepreneurship. We investigate several candidate explanations for this large post-birth factor and present suggestive evidence in favor of role modeling.