What Makes an Entrepreneur?
利用多个微观数据集研究创业，发现继承或赠与能提高自雇概率，潜在创业者认为融资是主要问题，自雇者比雇员有更高的工作和生活满意度，但童年心理测试得分与后期自雇关联不强。
This article uses various micro data sets to study entrepreneurship. Consistent with the existence of capital constraints on potential entrepreneurs, the estimates imply that the probability of self-employment depends positively upon whether the individual ever received an inheritance or gift. When directly questioned in interview surveys, potential entrepreneurs say that raising capital is their principal problem. Consistent with our theoretical model's predictions, the self-employed report higher levels of job and life satisfaction than employees. Childhood psychological test scores, however, are not strongly correlated with later self-employment. \n \n