A randomized experiment among poor entrepreneurs tested the impact of exogenously inducing higher financial aspirations …

The non-pecuniary benefits of managing a small business are a first order consideration for many nascent entrepreneurs …, yet the preference for business ownership is mostly ignored in models of entrepreneurship and occupational choice. In this … occupational choice. This choice yields several important results: (1) entrepreneurship can be thought of as a normal good …

level. First, we estimate the impact of COVID-19 and policy responses on small and medium sized enterprise (SME) business …

Why do levels of entrepreneurship differ across America's cities? This paper presents basic facts on two measures of … entrepreneurship: the self-employment rate and the number of small firms. Both of these measures are correlated with urban success … entrepreneurship is linked to a large number of small firms in supplying industries. Finally, there is a strong connection between area …

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 …

The paper studies the factors which shape entrepreneurship among young adults. It finds, using data on a British birth …