Prefatory note
Introduction / John Haltiwanger, Erik Hurst, Javier Miranda, and Antoinette Schoar. 1 Entrepreneurial heterogeneity : High-growth young firms: contribution to job, output, and productivity growth / John Haltiwanger, Ron S. Jarmin, Robert Kulick, and Javier Miranda
Nowcasting and placecasting entrepreneurial quality and performance / Jorge Guzman and Scott Stern
Wealth, tastes, and entrepreneurial choice / Erik Hurst and Benjamin W. Pugsley
Are founder CEOs good managers? / Victor Manuel Bennett, Megan Lawrence, and Raffaella Sadun
Immigrant entrepreneurship / Sari Pekkala Kerr and William R. Kerr. 2 Challenges facing entrepreneurs: finance and business conditions : How did young firms fare during the Great Recession? Evidence from the Kauffman Firm survey / Rebecca Zarutskie and Tiantian Yang
Small business and small business finance during the financial crisis and the Great Recession: new evidence from the Survey of Consumer Finances / Arthur B. Kennickell, Myron L. Kwast, and Jonathan Pogach
Does unemployment insurance change the selection into entrepreneurship? / Johan Hombert, Antoinette Schoar, David Sraer, and David Thesmar
Job creation, small versus large versus young, and the SBA / J. David Brown, John S. Earle, and Yana Morgulis. 3 Data gaps and promising avenues for the future : Venture capital data: opportunities and challenges / Steven N. Kaplan and Josh Lerner
The promise and potential of linked employer-employee data for entrepreneurship research / Christopher Goetz, Henry Hyatt, Erika McEntarfer, and Kristin Sandusky. Contributors
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Subject index.