in operation. The data show that serial entrepreneurship is relatively uncommon in retail trade. Of the almost 2 ….3 million retail businesses of small owners of new businesses in our data, only 25 percent are started by owners who have … matters. Finally, experience at starting retail businesses in other sectors (e.g. a clothing store versus a repair shop) is …

in prior work by using a reconciled list of California's hospital closures and by studying differential impacts of rural … California's rural closures. Results suggest that when treatment groups are not differentiated by hospital rurality, closures … appear to have no measurable impact. However, estimating differential impacts of rural and urban closures shows that rural …

We consider risk sharing in rural China during its rapid economic transformation from the late 1980s through the late …

NAICS industries account for 75% of the surge. Dominant industries include Nonstore Retail (alone accounting for 33% of the … that existing small businesses in Retail Trade and Accommodation and Food Services have suffered especially large declines …

segregate into low-return industries and avoid entrepreneurship altogether. In this paper, we present a model of female … entrepreneurship and rule of law that predicts that women will only start businesses when they have both formal legal protection and …

components to entrepreneurship - "opportunity" and "necessity" - the latter of which is mostly counter-cyclical. Although there … is some agreement on the conceptual distinction between these two factors driving entrepreneurship, there is little … opportunity versus necessity entrepreneurship based on the entrepreneur's prior work status (i.e. based on previous unemployment …