Campus Units
Economics
Document Type
Article
Publication Version
Accepted Manuscript
Publication Date
1-4-2020
Journal or Book Title
Small Business Economics
DOI
10.1007/s11187-019-00288-w
Abstract
The roles of selection and endogeneity in measured risk preferences are illustrated using the correlation between risk attitudes and firm survival. Selection bias occurs when risk attitudes are elicited only from current entrepreneurs so that the risk attitudes of unsuccessful entrepreneurs are excluded from the analysis. Risk attitudes measured after agents enter entrepreneurship will endogenously reflect business success. Data on entrepreneurs from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 and the Panel Study of Income Dynamics shows that when risk attitudes are measured subject to selection and endogeneity, mixed or even positive correlations between risk acceptance and the probability of firm exit occur. However, firm exits fall monotonically with willingness to accept risk when risk preference measures are not subject to selection or endogeneity related to business success.
JEL Classification
C18, D81, L26
Copyright Owner
Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature
Copyright Date
2020
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Cho, Insoo and Orazem, Peter F., "How endogenous risk preferences and sample selection affect analysis of firm survival" (2020). Economics Publications. 780.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/econ_las_pubs/780
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Behavioral Economics Commons, Econometrics Commons, Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations Commons, Longitudinal Data Analysis and Time Series Commons
Comments
This is a manuscript of an article published as Cho, I., Orazem, P.F. How endogenous risk preferences and sample selection affect analysis of firm survival. Small Bus Econ (2020). doi: 10.1007/s11187-019-00288-w. Posted with permission.