We study the impact of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) on the quality of entrepreneurship in China. Using long series of … firm registration and performance data, we document that the massive SOE downsizing in the late 1990s significantly … high-skilled SOE employees were reluctantly unleashed into entrepreneurship. We also provide corroborating evidence for …

economic activity in the form of higher entrepreneurship. Using administrative census data linked to the complete formal … created include both employer and non-employer firms and are relatively low on assets. In panel data specifications, the …

underrepresented founders. The article ends with an extensive set of research ideas motivated by the gaps in the entrepreneurship …

, we find that 6% of Republicans and 4% of Democrats become entrepreneurs. This partisan entrepreneurship gap is time …-varying: Republicans increase their relative entrepreneurship during Republican administrations and decrease it during Democratic … entrepreneurship around the elections of President Obama and President Trump, and the strongest effects among the most politically …

Immigrants contribute disproportionately to entrepreneurship in many countries, accounting for a quarter of new … employer businesses in the US. We review recent research on the measurement of immigrant entrepreneurship, the traits of …