first to consider both manufacturing and service entrepreneurship in China and should be of interest to both local and …Since Chinese government initiated economic reform in the late 1970s, entrepreneurship and private sectors have emerged … gradually and played an increasingly important role in promoting economic growth. However, entrepreneurship is distributed …

We use the 2012-2018 China Family Panel Studies data to examine the relationship between household energy poverty and … an individual’s probability of becoming an entrepreneur. Consistent with the theory of underdog entrepreneurship that … entrepreneurship, we find that spending a higher share of household income on energy consumption or being energy poor increases the …