We use an extensive panel of 17 million individuals born between 1947 and 1995 from China's largest online marketplace …, Taobao, to study the impact of RAE on the propensity to become an entrepreneur. Using events surrounding the Cultural … identify the RAE effects. The youngest students are 5.4% less likely to become an entrepreneur compared to the oldest within …

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 estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries …. Our data come from the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs, a random sample of firms with detailed information on owner … well as for recent start-ups and for every level of the entrepreneur's education. The size of the estimated immigrant …

discontinuity in Finland that allows certain entrepreneurs not to pay social insurance contributions on their income. Using rich … administrative data, we find that relaxing the social insurance mandate leads entrepreneurs to significantly reduce their …

on entry into entrepreneurship. The model predicts--and the data confirm--that entrepreneurs are positively selected on …We study the effects of ability and liquidity constraints on entrepreneurship. We develop a three sector Roy model that … differentiates between entrepreneurs and other self-employed to address puzzling gaps that have emerged between theory and evidence …

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

Platforms often have "crowds" of amateurs working on them as complementors, in other cases professional entrepreneurs …

We review the extensive literature since 2000 on the personality traits of entrepreneurs. We first consider baseline … consider risk attitudes and goals and aspirations of entrepreneurs. Within each area, we separate studies by the type of … entrepreneurial behavior considered: entry into entrepreneurship, performance outcomes, and exit from entrepreneurship. This …

Serial entrepreneurs, who open more than one business, are found to have higher sales and higher productivity than … novice entrepreneurs, who open one business. Using panel data on entrepreneurs and their firms from Denmark for 2001 …-2013, the serial entrepreneur has 67% higher sales than the novice, but also opens firms that are larger in terms of the initial …