This paper makes this point with a simple, capital-less model featuring entrepreneurs, with risky production …'s classification as a corporation subject to income taxation. But going public has an upside. It permits entrepreneurs to diversify … their assets. In discouraging incorporation, the corporate tax taxes business risk-sharing, keeping more entrepreneurs …

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

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 …

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 …

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 …