of immigrants in entrepreneurship. We ask how often immigrants start companies, how many jobs these firms create, and how …" than "job takers" and that non-U.S. born founders play outsized roles in U.S. high-growth entrepreneurship …

We use Census micro data to shed new light on how growth in house prices boosts US entrepreneurship. At the height of …-level relationship between house price increases and entrepreneurship operates through expansion of the home equity collateral channel … entrepreneurship observed in city-level analyses comes from higher local demand that boosts entry. Our results provide a nuanced …

firms (entrepreneurship) and the average quality of management (meritocracy). Legal reform also reduces financial … improve meritocracy at the expense of entrepreneurship. As a result, legal reform encounters less political opposition than …

entrepreneurship. We highlight two main characteristics of the program that make it attractive as an entrepreneurship policy: early … the incidence of biomedical entrepreneurship through SBIR and describe some of the characteristics of these individuals …

aversion, higher initial assets, preferences for entrepreneurship over employment, and optimistic beliefs about the payoffs …

components to entrepreneurship – “opportunity” and “necessity” – the latter of which is mostly counter-cyclical. Although there … is some agreement on the conceptual distinction between these two factors driving entrepreneurship, there is little … opportunity versus necessity entrepreneurship based on the entrepreneur's prior work status (i.e. based on previous unemployment …

segregate into low-return industries and avoid entrepreneurship altogether. In this paper, we present a model of female … entrepreneurship and rule of law that predicts that women will only start businesses when they have both formal legal protection and …