Nepotism, incentives and the academic success of college students

Gevrek, Deniz; Gevrek, Z. Eylem

Nepotism, incentives and the academic success of college students

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2010

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Gevrek, Deniz

Gevrek, Z. Eylem

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2009.11.001

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Labour Economics. 2010, 17(3), pp. 581-591. ISSN 0927-5371. eISSN 1879-1034. Available under: doi: 10.1016/j.labeco.2009.11.001

Zusammenfassung

This study investigates the role of parent-owned businesses on children's college success and post-college aspirations by using a unique data set from a private university in Turkey. The data set matches college students' administrative records with survey responses. The presence of self-employed parents and family businesses has a strong negative association with college success even after accounting for observed ability, parental background, and various individual characteristics. An explanation for the lower GPAs of the children of self-employed parents is that in the presence of parent-owned businesses students have a larger set of post-graduation options and are more likely to plan on becoming self-employed due to intergenerational transfer of self-employment. Hence, these students may not exert as much effort in acquiring the task-specific career-oriented human capital taught in college. In line with expectations, we find that the children of self-employed parents are more likely to have entrepreneurial intent and are less likely to plan to attend graduate school.

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330 Wirtschaft

Schlagwörter

College success; Self-employment; Family businesses; Nepotism

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GEVREK, Deniz, Z. Eylem GEVREK, 2010. Nepotism, incentives and the academic success of college students. In: Labour Economics. 2010, 17(3), pp. 581-591. ISSN 0927-5371. eISSN 1879-1034. Available under: doi: 10.1016/j.labeco.2009.11.001

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  doi={10.1016/j.labeco.2009.11.001},
  title={Nepotism, incentives and the academic success of college students},
  number={3},
  volume={17},
  issn={0927-5371},
  journal={Labour Economics},
  pages={581--591},
  author={Gevrek, Deniz and Gevrek, Z. Eylem}
}

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