Great Recession babies: How are startups shaped by macro conditions at birth?
大衰退中诞生的企业:创立时宏观环境如何塑造初创企业
We propose a novel identification strategy to estimate the long-term imprinting effects of being born in the Great Recession on innovative startups. After purging ubiquitous selection biases and sorting effects, we find that recession startups experience substantially better long-term outcomes in terms of survival and growth in employment and sales, despite being born when funding is scarce and demand is declining. In contrast to prior work, we find that the recession does…