Entrepreneurship is a hot topic both in academic and policy circles.1 There is a growingrecognition that entrepreneurship is a driving force in economic growth and development in bothestablished and emerging economies. There is also an increasing body of evidence suggestingentrepreneurship that...

Out-migration of college-educated youth from rural areas of the United States is a persistent trend and a salient concern for rural development practitioners. Using a unique dataset compiled from a survey of alumni graduating from a major Midwestern Land Grant University between 1982 and 2006,...

We hypothesize that hog production can be characterized by complementarities between newtechnologies, worker skills and farms size. Such production processes are consistent withKremer’s (1993) O-ring production theory in which a single mistake in any one of severalcomplementary tasks in a...