entrepreneurship research, how the research domain has evolved, and its current status as an academic field. The need to concretize …. Areas needed for future progress are highlighted, particularly the need for a rigorous dynamic theory of entrepreneurship …

Existing studies of entrepreneurship focus on entrepreneurs whose individual contribution to wealth creation is … typically trivial: self-employed persons. This paper investigates entrepreneurs whose individual contribution to wealth creation …

This study presents a new database, the Swedish National Wealth Database (SNWD), which contains annual data on private …, public and national wealth and sectoral saving rates in Sweden over the past two centuries. The paper reviews previous … investigations of national wealth, compares their estimates with the new ones and discusses method approaches and measurement …

Inherited wealth has attracted much attention recently, much due to the research by Thomas Piketty (Piketty, 2011; 2014 … of inherited wealth in Sweden over the past two hundred years. The trends in Sweden are similar to those in France and … nineteenth century because the country was so poor, Sweden is "un-European" today because so much wealth formation has taken …

We use administrative data on Swedish lottery players to estimate the causal impact of wealth on players' own health … assigned. In adults, we find no evidence that wealth impacts mortality or health care utilization, with the possible exception … mortality one sixth as large the cross-sectional gradient. In our intergenerational analyses, we find that wealth increases …

We study the effect of wealth on labor supply using the randomized assignment of monetary prizes in a large sample of …

We estimate the causal effect of wealth on stock market participation using administrative data on Swedish lottery … intuitive ways. Standard lifecycle models predict wealth effects far too large to match our causal estimates under common …

deals with reverse causality and omitted variable bias by exploiting exogenous variation in inherited wealth generated by … registers. The results show that increased wealth has limited impacts on objective adult health over a period of six years. This … the wealth shock resulting from the tax reform leads people to seek care for symptoms of disease, which result in that …