Hamilton, Barton Hughes; Papageorge, Nicholas W.; … - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 10 (2019) 2, pp. 643-691
personality traits, affect selection into self-employment. We link these two lines of inquiry. The model we estimate captures … incorporate personality traits by allowing them to affect sector-specific earnings as well as preferences. The estimated model … reveals that the personality traits that make entrepreneurship profitable are not always the same traits driving people to …