Why do some people become entrepreneurs (and others don't)? Why are firms so heterogeneous, and many firms so small? To start, the paper briefly documents evidence from the empirical literature that the relationship between entrepreneurship and education is Ushaped; that many entrepreneurs start a...

Across countries, women and men allocate time differently between market work, domestic services, and care work. In this paper, we document the gender division of work, drawing on a new harmonized data set that provides us with high-quality time use data for 50 countries spanning the global...

Euro area economies have lower total factor and labour productivity than the US. I argue that differences in entry cost contribute to this by affecting firms' technology choice. Introducing technology choice into a standard heterogeneous-firm model, small differences in administrative entry cost...

Trusting behavior has been shown to affect households' portfolio choice between risky and risk-free financial assets. We extend the analysis to include the dominant component of households' portfolios, real estate. Using data from the European Social Survey, we estimate individual-level trust by...

This paper provides new theory and evidence on the relationship between ability and entrepreneurship. I show that there is a U-shaped relationship between the probability of entrepreneurship and both a person's schooling and wage when employed. This pattern can be explained in a model of...

We assess the empirical relevance of different macroeconomic modeling approaches to wealth concentration, using the joint distribution of earnings, capital income and net worth in combination with an OLG model of household heterogeneity. We find large earnings disparities to be the primary...