Lost Marie Curies: Parental Impact on the Probability of Becoming an Inventor

The authors appreciate feedback on prior drafts from Waverly Ding, Anne Sophie Lassen, Vera Rocha, and Scott Stern, as well as conference and seminar participants at the Copenhagen Business School Paper Development Workshop on Gender, Work and Society 2020, the Asian Innovation and Entrepreneurship Association—National Bureau of Economic Research Conference 2020, the Wharton Technology & Innovation Conference 2021, the NBER Productivity Seminar (2020 Series), the DRUID Conference 2021, the Academy of Management Meeting 2021, the Munich Summer Institute 2021, the Econometrics and Business Statistics Seminar, Aarhus University 2021, the Internal Research Seminar, University of Maryland 2021, the Internal Research Seminar, University of Groningen 2021, the Internal Research Seminar, London Business School 2021, and Research Group in Theoretical and Applied Economics Lunch Seminar 2021, University of Bordeaux. The comments of the editors and three anonymous reviewers are gratefully acknowledged. The authors contributed equally, and their names are listed alphabetically.