. \textit{Ceteris paribus} lower trade costs in non-agriculture lead to fewer firms, but cheaper agricultural imports releases …

We study the impact of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) on the quality of entrepreneurship in China. Using long series of … improved the quality of entrepreneur- ship. Compared with entrepreneurs in other time periods, firms founded by the reluctant … entrepreneurs induced by the SOE layoffs have better performances. To explain these results, we present a simple model of …

, 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 … immigrant founders, their economic impact, and policy levers. We provide updated statistics on the share of US entrepreneurs who …

shifting away from their sector of specialization, rural labor markets saw faster wage growth and industrialization than non … structural change and local economic development. The calibrated model shows that rural areas adapted to the decline of the … agricultural sector by adopting technologies already in use in urban locations. Without such catchup growth, economic development …

Research on entrepreneurship often examines the local dimensions of new business formation. The local environment … influences the choices of entrepreneurs; entrepreneurial success influences the local economy. Yet modern urban economics has … paid relatively little attention to entrepreneurs. This essay introduces a special issue of Journal of Urban Economics …

We document that the nature of business cycles evolves over the process of development and structural change. In … agriculture declines while labor productivity increases in agriculture more than in other sectors. We construct a unified theory … simultaneous decline and modernization of agriculture. As capital accumulates, agriculture becomes increasingly capital intensive …

heat reduces non-agricultural productivity, but less so than in agriculture, implying that hot countries could adapt to … perversely pulls labor into agriculture where its productivity suffers most and reallocation exacerbates the global decline in …