startups. We draw on a longitudinal survey of over 5,600 foreign and native STEM PhD students at U.S. research universities to … outcomes after graduation. First, we find that foreign PhD students differ from native PhD students with respect to individual … characteristics typically associated with entrepreneurship such as risk tolerance, a preference for autonomy, and interest in …

Job creation is one of the most important aspects of entrepreneurship, but we know relatively little about the hiring … Survey (KFS), and the Growing America through Entrepreneurship (GATE) experiment are used to provide some of the first … largest random experiment providing entrepreneurship training in the United States ever conducted, we do not find evidence …

Assessing the state of American entrepreneurship requires not simply counting the quantity but also the initial quality … cycles as a driver of high-growth entrepreneurship, our results highlight the role of economic and institutional conditions …

with experimentation to learn about earnings. This pattern motivates estimating the expected returns to entrepreneurship … found to constitute a substantial portion of the monetary value of entrepreneurship. The model is then used to evaluate …

We study the role of homophily in group formation. Using a unique dataset of MBA students, we observe homophily in … entrepreneurship and venture capital industry …

We examine immigrant entrepreneurship and the survival and growth of immigrant-founded businesses over time relative to … into the United States, comprehensive data for quantifying immigrant entrepreneurship are difficult to assemble. We combine …

giving birth after a cutoff date, we study whether the option to return to a previous job increases entrepreneurship. A … regression discontinuity design reveals that longer job-protected leave increases entrepreneurship by 1.9 percentage points …

We study the effects of ability and liquidity constraints on entrepreneurship. We develop a three sector Roy model that … on entry into entrepreneurship. The model predicts—and the data confirm—that entrepreneurs are positively selected on … positively selected on collateral, but other self-employed are not; and entrepreneurship is procyclical, but self-employment is …