We study the relationship between ethnicity, occupational choice, and entrepreneurship. Immigrant groups in the United … entrepreneurship. Empirical evidence from the United States supports our model's underlying mechanisms. …

number of entrepreneurs, and makes entrepreneurs worse off. We calibrate the model to match U.S. manufacturing data. This … to entrepreneurship, and output. The calibration shows that optimism can explain the empirical puzzle of the low mean … returns to entrepreneurship compared to average wages. …

test this empirically, we apply instrumental variable approaches to PISA data. Our findings suggest that having an … ; entrepreneurship ; identity ; peer effects …

non-cognitive outcome important for economic growth. We use international PISA-2006 student-level data to estimate the … shares, students’ academic skills, and parents’ entrepreneurial occupation. -- private school competition ; entrepreneurship …

Indian immigrants in the United States and other wealthy countries are successful in entrepreneurship. Using Census … data from the three largest developed countries receiving Indian immigrants in the world -- the United States, United …

data. Weak evidence is found for the proposition that the rate of entrepreneurship is related to the degree of income …We find evidence in the OECD cross-country data to support the Knightian view that non-diversifiable economic risks … shape equilibrium entrepreneurship in an occupational choice model. Differential social insurance of entrepreneurial and …

This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Censuses to study labor market assimilation of self …