Entrepreneurs must choose between alternative strategies for bringing their idea to market. They face uncertainty … regarding both the quality of their idea as well as the efficacy of each strategy. While entrepreneurs can reduce this …

participate, and over 50% of them are entrepreneurs. We then exploit an identification strategy by comparing the entrepreneurial …

improved the quality of entrepreneur- ship. Compared with entrepreneurs in other time periods, firms founded by the reluctant … entrepreneurs induced by the SOE layoffs have better performances. To explain these results, we present a simple model of …

We collect time-use data for entrepreneurs and their workers in over 1,000 manufacturing firms in urban Uganda. We …

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 …

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 …

, India, we find that "gung ho entrepreneurs" (GEs), households who were already running a business before microfinance … model of technology choice in which talented entrepreneurs can access either a diminishing-returns technology, or a more … entrepreneurial ability is important and persistent. For talented but low-wealth entrepreneurs, short-term access to credit can indeed …