Low Risk Aversion Encourages the Choice for Entrepreneurship : An Empirical Test of a Truism

Entrepreneurship is historically associated with risk bearing. Consequently, risk attitude is widely believed to affect the selection of individuals into entrepreneurial positions. The data used in our empirical analysis support the supposedly negative effect of risk-aversion on entrepreneurship selection. However, we feel not sufficiently confident about our measure of risk attitude to conclude anything concerning the causality of this relationship

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Year of publication:	2016
Authors:	Praag, Mirjam van ; Cramer, Jan S. ; Hartog, Joop ; Jonker, Nicole
Publisher:	[S.l.] : SSRN
Subject:	Entrepreneurship \| Entrepreneurship approach \| Theorie \| Theory \| Risikopräferenz \| Risk attitude \| Risikoaversion \| Risk aversion

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