Self-employment and risk aversion--evidence from psychological test data

By J. Ekelund, Edvard Johansson, M. Järvelin, D. Lichtermann. 2005

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions, Management of Technology and Innovation

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Does innovativeness reduce startup survival rates (2015, background): “Building on a long tradition in the literature (Caggese, 2012; Cucculelli and Ermini, 2013; Ekelund et al., 2005; Kessler et al., 2012; Kihlström and Roth, 1982; Knight, 1921), we argue that an entrepreneur's willingness to take and tolerate risk and uncertainty is a particularly relevant and…”
Individual Determinants of Self-Employment Entry – What Do We Really Know? (2013, unknown): “For a short discussion of this issue, see, for instance, Elston and Audretsch (2011). Kerr and Nanda (2011) provide a more comprehensive discussion.”
Gender, Risk, and Venture Creation Intentions (2015, background): “However, risk aversion may be lower in both experienced and novice entrepreneurs, compared to nonentrepreneurs (Ekelund et al., 2005).”
Risk attitudes of nascent entrepreneurs–new evidence from an experimentally validated survey (2009, background): “…the empirical research (see inter alia Kihlstrom and Laffont (1979), Rees and Shah (1986), Stewart et al. (1999), Wagner (2003), Müller (1999), and Ekelund et al. (2005), where the latter two approaches are making use of psychometric data) supports the conventional wisdom that the role model of…”
Entrepreneurship in the UK (2007, unknown): “Ekelund et al. (2005) used data from the 1966 Northern Finnish Birth Cohort Study.”
Attitudes toward risk and self-employment of young workers☆ (2010, background): “survey to elicit individual risk attitudes and examine its effects on self-employment (Ekelund et al. 2005).”
Personality Traits of Entrepreneurs: A Review of Recent Literature (2018, unknown): “This echoes earlier findings by Evans and Leighton (1989), and many studies find parallel results. In a cross-sectional study, Korunka et al. (2003) measure that Austrian entrepreneurs (defined as “successful new owner-managers”) have a strong internal LOC compared to “nascent entrepreneurs.”
What is the value of entrepreneurship? A review of recent research (2007, unknown): “24 Van Praag and Cramer (2001), Cramer et al. (2002) and Ekelund et al. (2005) are three studies providing evidence that individuals with higher risk aversion are less likely to become entrepreneurs.”
Cross-Sectional Earnings Risk and Occupational Sorting: The Role of Risk Attitudes (2006, methodology): “Ekelund et al. (2005) use a psychometric measure of harm avoidance as an indicator of propensity to take risks.”