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Spouses, children and entrepreneurship

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  • Joao Galindo da Fonseca

    (Université de Montréal)

  • Charles Berubé

    (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada)

Abstract

We develop a model of endogenous entrepreneurship and marriage. Spouses influence entrepreneurship via three channels: they reduce benefits by working less the more profitable the business is, they reduce costs by working more in case of business failure, and children, associated with a spouse, increase the cost of failure. We use administrative matched owner-employer-employee spouse data to estimate the specifications derived from our model. The model is informative on the sources of endogeneity and the IV strategy. We show that higher marriage rates induce less entry but larger firms on average. Through the lens of our model, marriage increases firm productivity.

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  • Joao Galindo da Fonseca & Charles Berubé, 2020. "Spouses, children and entrepreneurship," Cahiers de recherche 2020-03, Universite de Montreal, Departement de sciences economiques.
    • Handle: RePEc:mtl:montde:2020-03
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    2. da Fonseca, João Galindo & Pannella, Pierluca, 2023. "The housing boom and selection into entrepreneurship," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 85(C).
    3. Joern Block & Christian Brandstetter & Michael A. Zaggl, 2025. "Maker motives and entrepreneurial opportunity evaluation in academic makerspaces," Small Business Economics, Springer, vol. 65(2), pages 973-993, August.

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    JEL classification:

    • E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
    • E23 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Production
    • J12 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure
    • J60 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - General

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