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Source: Journal of Business Venturing
Resulting in 3 citations.
1. Andric, Mateja
Hsueh, Josh Wei-Jun
Zellweger, Thomas
Hatak, Isabella
Parental Divorce in Early Life and Entrepreneurial Performance in Adulthood
Journal of Business Venturing 39,3 (May 2024): 106390.
Also: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusvent.2024.106390
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Elsevier
Keyword(s): Childhood, Early; Divorce; Entrepreneurial Performance; Entrepreneurship; Family History; Human Capital; Life Course; Self-Efficacy; Self-Employed Workers

We examine how parental divorce in early life affects performance in entrepreneurship in adulthood. Drawing on life course theory and empirical analyses of US self-employment and childhood data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979, we show that entrepreneurs' experience of parental divorce in childhood benefits their entrepreneurial performance in adulthood through a gain in self-efficacy while simultaneously suppressing entrepreneurial performance through a shortfall in human capital. We also show that whether the performance advantages or disadvantages from parental divorce dominate depends on parental human capital. While parental divorce is associated with underperformance for entrepreneurs whose parents have high levels of human capital, it is positively related to entrepreneurial performance for those with low parental human capital. Our study contributes new theory and evidence on the intertemporal relationship between past family contexts and present entrepreneurial performance.
Bibliography Citation
Andric, Mateja, Josh Wei-Jun Hsueh, Thomas Zellweger and Isabella Hatak. "Parental Divorce in Early Life and Entrepreneurial Performance in Adulthood." Journal of Business Venturing 39,3 (May 2024): 106390.
2. Kwon, Seok-Woo
Ruef, Martin
The Imprint of Labor Markets on Entrepreneurial Performance
Journal of Business Venturing 32,6 (November 2017): 611-626.
Also: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0883902616302464
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Elsevier
Keyword(s): Census of Population; Earnings; Economic Changes/Recession; Entrepreneurship; Geocoded Data; Labor Market Demographics; Unemployment Rate, Regional

Using the 1979-2010 waves of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, our study tracks the earnings of individual entrepreneurs from the beginning of their entrepreneurial careers, examining the effects of labor markets on their earnings trajectory. Results show that apart from self-selection, labor markets impose a penalty on the initial earnings of entrepreneurs who start a business in adverse economic conditions, a disadvantage that persists for up to a decade. We also identify two factors expected to alleviate the imprinting effect of labor markets: migration outside the imprinting environment and serial entrepreneurship.
Bibliography Citation
Kwon, Seok-Woo and Martin Ruef. "The Imprint of Labor Markets on Entrepreneurial Performance." Journal of Business Venturing 32,6 (November 2017): 611-626.
3. Yu, Wei
Stephan, Ute
Bao, Jia
Childhood Adversities: Mixed Blessings for Entrepreneurial Entry
Journal of Business Venturing 38,2 (March 2023): 106287.
Also: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0883902623000010
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult
Publisher: Elsevier
Keyword(s): Childhood Adversity/Trauma; Entrepreneurship; Gender Differences

The developmental psychology literature has linked childhood adversities to detrimental development outcomes that can undermine labor market participation and performance. In contrast, emerging entrepreneurship studies raise the possibility that childhood adversities may positively affect entrepreneurial action with some diverging findings. We reconcile these opposing theoretical perspectives in their effects on entrepreneurial entry by theorizing that childhood adversities are a mixed blessing for entrepreneurship and affect entry through two countervailing theoretical mechanisms. Childhood adversities increase the likelihood of entrepreneurial entry by promoting rule-breaking tendency and simultaneously decrease the likelihood of entry by negatively impacting individual ability (self-efficacy and educational attainment). We further theorized that childhood adversities have different implications for different types of entrepreneurial entry (incorporated and unincorporated) and for men versus women. We tested our hypotheses on a longitudinal sample of 4222 individuals from the NLSY79 child and young adult cohort data, which tracks the development of children born to a representative sample of U.S. young women from childhood through youth to adulthood. Our study offers new insight into the effects of childhood adversities on entrepreneurship, including gender-specific manifestations and outcomes of childhood adversities.
Bibliography Citation
Yu, Wei, Ute Stephan and Jia Bao. "Childhood Adversities: Mixed Blessings for Entrepreneurial Entry." Journal of Business Venturing 38,2 (March 2023): 106287.