Prefatory Note
Introduction
John Haltiwanger, Erik G. Hurst, Javier Miranda, and Antoinette Schoar
I. Entrepreneurial Heterogeneity
1. High-Growth Young Firms: Contribution to Job, Output, and Productivity Growth
John Haltiwanger, Ron S Jarmin, Robert Kulick, and Javier Miranda
2. Nowcasting and Placecasting Entrepreneurial Quality and Performance
Jorge Guzman and Scott Stern
3. Wealth, Tastes, and Entrepreneurial Choice
Erik G. Hurst and Benjamin W. Pugsley
4. Are Founder CEOs Good Managers?
Victor Manuel Bennett, Megan Lawrence, and Raffaella Sadun
5. Immigrant Entrepreneurship
Sari Pekkala Kerr and William R. Kerr
II. Challenges Facing Entrepreneurs: Finance and Business Conditions
6. How Did Young Firms Fare during the Great Recession? Evidence from the Kauffman Firm Survey
Rebecca Zarutskie and Tiantian Yang
7. Small Businesses 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
8. Does Unemployment Insurance Change the Selection into Entrepreneurship?
Johan Hombert, Antoinette Schoar, David Sraer, and David Thesmar
9. Job Creation, Small versus Large versus Young, and the SBA
J. David Brown, John S. Earle, and Yana Morgulis
III. Data Gaps and Promising Avenues for the Future
10. Venture Capital Data: Opportunities and Challenges
Steven N. Kaplan and Josh Lerner
11. The Promise and Potential of Linked Employer-Employee Data for Entrepreneurship Research
Christopher Goetz, Henry Hyatt, Erika McEntarfer, and Kristin Sandusky
Contributors
Author Index
Subject Index