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

Various theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs … throughout the world. Using data from the largest randomized control trial ever conducted on entrepreneurship training, we …

redistributive taxation. In equilibrium, agents become entrepreneurs if their skill is sufficiently high or risk aversion … sufficiently low. Under heavier taxation, entrepreneurs are more skilled and less risk-averse, on average. Through these selection …

, where education increases the level of entrepreneurship. Human capital spillovers occur at the city level because skilled … productivity or entrepreneurship, not with growth in quality of life, at least outside of the West. We also find that skills seem …

Serial entrepreneurs, who open more than one business, are found to have higher sales and higher productivity than … novice entrepreneurs, who open one business. Using panel data on entrepreneurs and their firms from Denmark for 2001 … entrepreneurs that hold a portfolio of overlapping ongoing firms perform the best, as do those that open as limited liability firm …

on entry into entrepreneurship. The model predicts—and the data confirm—that entrepreneurs are positively selected on …We study the effects of ability and liquidity constraints on entrepreneurship. We develop a three sector Roy model that … differentiates between entrepreneurs and other self-employed to address puzzling gaps that have emerged between theory and evidence …

discontinuity in Finland that allows certain entrepreneurs not to pay social insurance contributions on their income. Using rich … administrative data, we find that relaxing the social insurance mandate leads entrepreneurs to significantly reduce their …

We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries …. Our data come from the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs, a random sample of firms with detailed information on owner …

We review the extensive literature since 2000 on the personality traits of entrepreneurs. We first consider baseline … consider risk attitudes and goals and aspirations of entrepreneurs. Within each area, we separate studies by the type of … entrepreneurial behavior considered: entry into entrepreneurship, performance outcomes, and exit from entrepreneurship. This …