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This study investigates the role of self-employment statuses of parents on their children’s college success and post-graduation plans by using a unique data set from a private university in Turkey. We assembled the data set by matching college students’ administrative records with their responses to a survey we designed. Presence of self-employed parents has a strong negative effect on college success even after accounting for possible ability bias, intergenerational human capital transfers and various individual characteristics. The children of self-employed parents are also more likely to have entrepreneurial intent and are less likely to plan to attend graduate school.
Source: “Nepotism, Incentives and the Academic Success of College Students” from IZA Discussion Paper No. 3711, September 2008
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