Immigrants contribute disproportionately to entrepreneurship in many countries, accounting for a quarter of new … employer businesses in the US. We review recent research on the measurement of immigrant entrepreneurship, the traits of … immigrant founders, their economic impact, and policy levers. We provide updated statistics on the share of US entrepreneurs who …

Financing constraints are one of the biggest concerns impacting potential entrepreneurs around the world. Given the … important role that entrepreneurship is believed to play in the process of economic growth, alleviating financing constraints … for would-be entrepreneurs is also an important goal for policymakers worldwide. We review two major streams of research …

A central challenge in the measurement of entrepreneurship is accounting for the wide variation in entrepreneurial … quality distribution. Second, we propose two new economic statistics for the measurement of entrepreneurship: the … Entrepreneurship Quality Index (EQI) and the Regional Entrepreneurship Cohort Potential Index (RECPI). We use these indices to offer a …

economy to aggregate shocks. In this paper we examine the characteristics of the individuals who become entrepreneurs when … individuals are younger and more skilled than the average entrepreneur in the population. The entrepreneurial response of young …

changing nature and geography of entrepreneurship in the wake of the COVID pandemic. Consistent with other data sources …

the past decade. Our primary finding is that successful entrepreneurs are middle-aged, not young. The mean founder age for … successful entrepreneurs …

We study the relationship between ethnicity, occupational choice, and entrepreneurship. Immigrant groups in the United …-isolated groups achieving considerable economic success via concentrated entrepreneurship. Empirical evidence from the United States …

point increase in entrepreneurship, equivalent to a 4% increase in the number of entrepreneurs. New entrants were more …We study how a mortgage reform that exogenously increased access to credit had an impact on entrepreneurship, using … benefit from the reform. Our results provide evidence that credit constraints do affect entrepreneurship, but that the overall …