I investigate the mechanisms that drive sorting into entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial success among young … model of career choice that features heterogeneous employers, human capital accumulation, and unobserved heterogeneity …" entrepreneurs. I use the estimated model to evaluate policies designed to promote entrepreneurship …

employment to entrepreneurship (self-employment and leadership of micro-enterprises). By means of a difference-in-differences non … employment to entrepreneurship are positive, statistically significant and financially substantial. Even more, the results are … salaried jobs to entrepreneurship and lower losses on the reverse switch …

also reinforce the prior evidence on the intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship …

choose careers with low pecuniary returns. Therefore, financial incentives are unlikely to be effective in influencing career … choices of these individuals. Based on Akerlof and Kranton (2000), we consider a model of career choice and identity where … related to identity (career orientation and social orientation), which are important for educational choices. The implication …

important for policies that target reductions in disadvantage. In this paper we construct a measure of adult resilience … adaptation. We find considerable heterogeneity in the response to adverse events, and that resilience is strongly correlated with … clinical measures of mental health. Resilience in adulthood is predictable by childhood socioeconomic circumstances; the …

entrepreneurship literature has emphasised the important role of personality traits as predictors for start-up decisions and business …

Economic Psychology on "Personality and Entrepreneurship". The contributions are clustered around questions regarding the … for entrepreneurship research …

enter entrepreneurship, we find that the conventional practice of conflating different industry types in empirical analyses … of transitions to entrepreneurship generates misleading findings about the determinants of entrepreneurship …