This study seeks to estimate whether individuals’ risk and time preferences are predictive of self employment status and entry. Prior Work: The low risk aversion of those who are self employed is well established in theory and empirical evidence, there is less evidence however on whether risk...

Both theoretical and applied economics have a great deal to say about many aspects of the firm, but the literature on the extinctions, or demises, of firms is very sparse. We use a publicly available data base covering some 6 million firms in the US and show that the underlying statistical...

In recent years many advances have been made in solution techniques for specially structured 0-1 integer programming problems. In contrast, very little progress has been made on solving general (mixed integer) problems. This, of course, is not true when viewed from the theoretical side: Lenstra...

High stakes testing regimes for the purpose of school accountability carry the risk of narrowing of the curriculum to tested subjects, typically numeracy and literacy. As such, some education systems also include standardized tests in science as part of their high stakes testing regime....

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, governments across the world have attempted to protect jobs by paying companies to retain employees (“furloughing”), even when there was no work for them to do. Using a difference-in-differences design on a nationally representative dataset, this study...

Objectives: This study seeks to estimate whether individuals' risk and time preferences are predictive of self employment status and entry. Prior Work: The low risk aversion of those who are self employed is well established in theory and empirical evidence, there is less evidence however on...