The Unstoppable Entrepreneur: Do they have more Children? The story continues

The role of the occupational status of an entrepreneur on reproductive success is a rather unexplored area of literature. This paper will investigate the relationship between being an entrepreneur and the number of offspring the entrepreneur produces compared to non-entrepreneurs. Using the occupational status of individuals together with a compilation of genetic as well as environmentally influenced features that are characteristic of self-employed individuals, a model is formed in order to test the hypothesis that self-employed individuals have higher reproductive success compared to non-self-employed individuals and that the genetic as well as circumstantial characteristics that are typical of such individuals also have a positive effect on reproductive success. This is done by using the dataset of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA). The results of this thesis provide evidence that entrepreneurs tend to have more offspring than non-entrepreneurs, hereby giving credit to (or at the very least not disproving) the proposed hypotheses.