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Intelligence, Self-confidence and Entrepreneurship
Asoni, Andrea - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2011
I investigate the effect of human capital on entrepreneurship using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth - 1979. I … robust to controlling for selection into entrepreneurship and selection into college. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009358944
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The Psychology of the Entrepreneur and the Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship
Bengtsson, Ola; Sanandaji, Tino; Johannesson, Magnus - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012
Self-employment is often used as synonymous with entrepreneurship. We define entrepreneurship as having the ambition to … gender differences in entrepreneurship. Measured psychological characteristics can account for one third of the large gender … gap in entrepreneurship, but only one tenth of the smaller gender gap in self-employment. Men are one and a half times …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010729197
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The Bright but Right View? A New Type of Evidence on Entrepreneurial Optimism
Bengtsson, Ola; Ekeblom, Daniel - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014
Existing empirical evidence suggests that entrepreneurs are optimists, a finding researchers often interpret as evidence of a behavioral bias in entrepreneurial decision-making. We revisit this claim by analyzing an unusually large survey dataset (180,814 responses) that allows us to create a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818438
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Employee Compensation in Entrepreneurial Companies
Bengtsson, Ola; Hand, John R. M. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012
Despite the central role played by human capital in entrepreneurship, little is known about how employees in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818473
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Does College Education Reduce Small Business Failure?
Asoni, Andrea; Sanandaji, Tino - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014
We estimate the effect of college education on business survival using the NLSY79. The endogeneity of both education and business ownership is accounted for by a competing risks duration model augmented with a college selection equation. Contrary to the previous literature, we fi…nd no effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011099536