entrepreneurship which identifies survival with performance. Instead, many entrepreneurs aim for a cash-out (IPO or acquisition …We analyze how entrepreneurial opportunity cost conditions performance. We depart from the literature on … entrepreneurial performance …

This paper argues that a large component of success in entrepreneurship and venture capital can be attributed to skill … further support for the role of skill in both entrepreneurship and venture capital …

performance of founders who become venture capitalists (VCs). We find that nearly 7% of VCs were previously founders of a venture … higher deal quality does not explain the entire difference in performance. Using an instrumental variables approach to …

well as for recent start-ups and for every level of the entrepreneur's education. The size of the estimated immigrant …

, Taobao, to study the impact of RAE on the propensity to become an entrepreneur. Using events surrounding the Cultural … identify the RAE effects. The youngest students are 5.4% less likely to become an entrepreneur compared to the oldest within …

We study the effects of ability and liquidity constraints on entrepreneurship. We develop a three sector Roy model that … on entry into entrepreneurship. The model predicts--and the data confirm--that entrepreneurs are positively selected on … positively selected on collateral, but other self-employed are not; and entrepreneurship is procyclical, but self-employment is …

The paper studies the factors which shape entrepreneurship among young adults. It finds, using data on a British birth …