This study extends and applies the methodology proposed by Guzman and Stern (2015) to estimate and map the quality of entrepreneurship in India, using government census data for 1,542,555 registered micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs), spanning all 29 states in India. To our knowledge,...

Empirical work on micro and small firms has focused on developed countries. The little work that exists on developing countries is all too often based on small samples taken from ad hoc questionnaires. The census data we analyze are fairly representative of the structure of small business in...