 Living under the shadow: Adverse childhood experiences and entrepreneurial behaviors in Chinese adultsChunkai Zhao and Xing Li Journal of Business Research, 2022, vol. 138, issue C, 239-255 Abstract: This paper examines the effects of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) on adult entrepreneurial behaviors. By adopting the data from China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS), we exploited the instrumental variable (IV) methods and found that the shadow of ACEs is significantly detrimental to entrepreneurship in adulthood, and this result proved robust across several methods. Mechanism tests indicated that the negative impacts of ACEs on entrepreneurship can be explained by losses in human capital, physical capital, and social capital, and developing a risk-averse personality. Further, heterogeneity results showed that the negative impact of ACEs from parents is greater, and the negative effect of ACEs on entrepreneurship is only valid for young and female and rural residents. This study enriches the discussion on ACEs and entrepreneurial behaviors in adulthood via better causal identification, and it provides important insights for other developing countries. Keywords: Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs); Entrepreneurship; Human capital; Physical capital; Social capital; China (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:jbrese:v:138:y:2022:i:c:p:239-255 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2021.09.016 Access Statistics for this article Journal of Business Research is currently edited by A. G. Woodside More articles in Journal of Business Research from Elsevier |
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