We disaggregate the self-employed into incorporated and unincorporated to distinguish between "entrepreneurs" and other … "illicit" tendencies as youths accounts for both entry into entrepreneurship and the comparative earnings of entrepreneurs. In … contrast to past research, we find that entrepreneurs earn more per hour and work more hours than their salaried and …

the past decade. Our primary finding is that successful entrepreneurs are middle-aged, not young. The mean founder age for … successful entrepreneurs …

Managerial delegation is essential for firm growth. While firms in poor countries often shun outside managers and … entrepreneurs have fixed-time endowments to run their daily operations. As firms grow larger, the need to delegate decision …

Among typical entrepreneurs, is the serial entrepreneur more likely to succeed? If so, why? We answer these two …

We analyze a large-scale survey of owners, managers, and employees of small businesses in the United States to …

In this paper we show that the patenting behavior of creative entrepreneurs is correlated with the patenting behavior … of their fathers, which we refer to as a source of the entrepreneurs' human capital endowments. Our argument for this …

do not attract talented-but-reluctant entrepreneurs, but instead attract individuals with personality traits associated …