We investigate whether nonprofit and for-profit entrepreneurs share similar observable and unobservable skills. In JLE … 23:649-680, 2005 "Jacks-of-all-Trades" model of entrepreneurship, individuals with more diverse academic and occupational … training are more likely to become entrepreneurs, while more narrowly trained individuals become employees. Data on college …

By allowing agents to switch from entrepreneurship to wage work and vice versa over the life cycle, this study proposes … a dynamic Jacks-of-All-Trades (JAT) model where entrepreneurs invest in highly varied skills to manage their business …

This paper analyzes the impact of a leading entrepreneurship education program on college students’ entrepreneurship …

" entrepreneurs. I use the estimated model to evaluate policies designed to promote entrepreneurship. …I investigate the mechanisms that drive sorting into entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial success among young … individuals. I use Canadian matched owner-employeremployee data to conduct my investigation. Empirically, older entrepreneurs and …

fact that human capital on the individual and regional levels may be interrelated in affecting entrepreneurship. We use … the level of entrepreneurship activity via individual and aggregated pathways and that the price elasticity of diverse …

The U.S. is undergoing a long-term decline in entrepreneurship. We show that this slow-down in entrepreneurship has … been more pronounced for skilled individuals. Since 1983, the share of entrepreneurs among those with at least a college … period. To support this hypothesis, we document that earnings for workers grew faster than entrepreneurs, particularly so for …

We construct a structural model of entry into self-employment to evaluate the impact of policies supporting … entrepreneurship. Previous work has recognized that workers may opt for self-employment due to the nonpecuniary benefits of running a … reveals that the personality traits that make entrepreneurship profitable are not always the same traits driving people to …

principal components analysis. A sample of 394 potential entrepreneurs was administered the SAT-ECENT questionnaire, testing … implications and relevance of the findings as well as the practical implications for entrepreneurship promotion programs …

The main study in my dissertation posits that prospective entrepreneurs face a spectrum of entrepreneurial choices … rather than a binary employment-entrepreneurship decision and explores how cognitive determinants influence these choices. I … on a self-employment definition of entrepreneurship or on uni-dimensional drivers has obscured these more complex choices …