Low Risk Aversion Encourages the Choice for Entrepreneurship: An Empirical Test of a Truism
Posted: 23 Feb 2002
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Low Risk Aversion Encourages the Choice for Entrepreneurship: An Empirical Test of a Truism
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 48, No. 1, 2002
Number of pages: 13
Posted: 11 Dec 2001
Last Revised: 22 Jan 2016
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Abstract
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.
Keywords: Entrepreneurship, self-employment, risk-taking, occupational choice
JEL Classification: D81, J23, J24, M13
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
van Praag, Mirjam and van Praag, Mirjam and Cramer, J.S. and Hartog, Joop and Jonker, Nicole, Low Risk Aversion Encourages the Choice for Entrepreneurship:
An Empirical Test of a Truism. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=292268
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