Entrepreneurship requires energy and creativity as well as business acumen. Some factors that contribute to … entrepreneurship may decline with age, but business skills increase with experience in high level positions. Having too many older … workers in society slows entrepreneurship. Older workers do not possess the advantages of youth, but more significant is that …

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 …

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 …

Among typical entrepreneurs, is the serial entrepreneur more likely to succeed? If so, why? We answer these two … in operation. The data show that serial entrepreneurship is relatively uncommon in retail trade. Of the almost 2 …

Platforms often have “crowds” of amateurs working on them as complementors, in other cases professional entrepreneurs …

Assessing the state of American entrepreneurship requires not simply counting the quantity but also the initial quality … cycles as a driver of high-growth entrepreneurship, our results highlight the role of economic and institutional conditions …

entrepreneurship and rule of law that predicts that women will only start businesses when they have both formal legal protection and … a comparative advantage at violence and there is little rule-of-law, then unequal bargaining power can lead women to … segregate into low-return industries and avoid entrepreneurship altogether. In this paper, we present a model of female …

for women facing more restrictive social norms? We offered two days of business counseling to a random sample of customers … of India's largest women's bank. A random subsample was invited to attend with a friend. The intervention had a … were stronger among women from religious or caste groups with social norms that restrict female mobility …

soliciting the current client in the event of termination of employment. The socially optimal level of entrepreneurship will … are too restrictive and produce too little entrepreneurship, and governments can increase welfare by limiting enforcement …