Replication of two recent studies of growth determinants shows that results are sensitive to the choice of data from … which growth rates are calculated, especially with respect to whether economic convergence has occurred. Previous warnings … (growth rates) have been largely ignored at the cost of possibly contaminating the conclusions. …

Measured rates of growth in real per capita income differ drastically depending on the data source. This phenomenon …. Replication of several recent studies of growth determinants shows that results are sensitive in important ways to the choice of …-country patterns over time (growth rates) have been largely ignored at the cost of possibly contaminating the conclusions. …

possible implications of this key fact by surveying and adapting literature on growth and inequality. I focus especially on the …

the impacts both of risk aversion and balanced skills on the likelihood individuals choose entrepreneurship. Data on Dutch …-averse people might be suited to entrepreneurship; and it may also help explain why prior research has generated mixed evidence … about the effects of risk aversion on selection into entrepreneurship. …

spells in entrepreneurship versus wage employment, thereby accounting for selectivity into entrepreneurial positions based on …

entrepreneurship experience (IEE), an unconventional form of human capital, is related to the performance and motivation of …