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ContributorsYekel, Amy Louise (Performer) / Mills, Robert (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created2006-04-30
ContributorsPopham, Deborah (Performer) / Jones, Jeffrey (Performer) / Mills, Robert (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created2012-09-21
ContributorsJones, Jennifer (Performer) / Mills, Robert (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created2014-04-28
ContributorsJensen, Kristin (Performer) / Jiang, Qing (Performer) / Frank, Elijah (Performer) / Mills, Robert (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created2004-11-18
ContributorsThilakaratne, Katherine (Performer) / Mills, Robert (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created2016-04-04
ContributorsYost, Heidi (Performer) / Anderton, Ren (Performer) / Storochuk, Allison (Performer) / Mills, Robert (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created2000-11-30
ContributorsPopham, Deborah (Performer) / Clavijo, Donna (Performer) / Mills, Robert (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created2006-04-30
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By matching a CEO's place of residence in his or her formative years with U.S. Census survey data, I obtain an estimate of the CEO's family wealth and study the link between the CEO's endowed social status and firm performance. I find that, on average, CEOs born into poor families

By matching a CEO's place of residence in his or her formative years with U.S. Census survey data, I obtain an estimate of the CEO's family wealth and study the link between the CEO's endowed social status and firm performance. I find that, on average, CEOs born into poor families outperform those born into wealthy families, as measured by a variety of proxies for firm performance. There is no evidence of higher risk-taking by the CEOs from low social status backgrounds. Further, CEOs from less privileged families perform better in firms with high R&D spending but they underperform CEOs from wealthy families when firms operate in a more uncertain environment. Taken together, my results show that endowed family wealth of a CEO is useful in identifying his or her managerial ability.
ContributorsDu, Fangfang (Author) / Babenko, Ilona (Thesis advisor) / Bates, Thomas (Thesis advisor) / Tserlukevich, Yuri (Committee member) / Wang, Jessie (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2018
ContributorsGiardina, Vicki (Performer) / Mills, Robert (Performer) / Dobrzelewski, Jean-Christophe (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created2003-02-05
ContributorsMills, Robert (Performer) / Gardiner, Diane (Performer) / Yost, Heidi (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created2004-04-26