We use a representative sample of informal entrepreneurs in Madagascar to add new evidence on the magnitude of the … and male entrepreneurs. Only male entrepreneurs seem subject to pressure to redistribute from the distant network. Our …

where growth is driven by the innovative activity of entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship is risky and requires investments that … hinges on risk tolerance and patience. Parents expecting their children to become entrepreneurs have an incentive to instill … rate of the economy depends on the fraction of the population choosing an entrepreneurial career. How many entrepreneurs …

A tradition from Knight (1921) argues that more risk tolerant individuals are more likely to become entrepreneurs, but …

In the large literature on firm performance, economists have given little attention to entrepreneurs. We use deaths of … more than 500 entrepreneurs as a source of exogenous variation, and ask whether this variation can explain shifts in firm … performance. Using longitudinal data, we find large and sustained effects of entrepreneurs at all levels of the performance …