Building on the negative to mixed effects of natural disasters on entrepreneurial activity, we posit that regional rugged individualism attenuates the decline in business activity following natural disasters. We find that greater property damage from natural disasters in the presence of greater...

Does intra-country variation in individualism explain variations in intra-country entrepreneurial activity? Rugged individualism, as a unique sociocultural phenomenon, refers to the total years of frontier experience in a US county between 1790 and 1890. Ranging from zero to sixty-three years,...