%0 Report
        %A Viinikainen, Jutta
%A Heineck, Guido
%A Böckerman, Petri
%A Hintsanen, Mirka
%A Raitakari, Olli
%A Pehkonen, Jaakko
        %T Born Entrepreneur? Adolescents' Personality Characteristics and Self-Employment in Adulthood
        %D 2016
        %8 2016 Mar
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 9805
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp9805
        %X Is there an entrepreneurial personality and does it appear early in life? We provide a new answer on this question by using the so-called Type A behavior traits (Aggression, Leadership, Responsibility, and Eagerness-Energy), measured in childhood and adolescence, and examining their relationship to self-employment propensity in adulthood. Using data from the Young Finns Study linked to the Finnish Longitudinal Employer-Employee Data and the Longitudinal Population Census of Statistics, our results show that the early-life Leadership-dimension is significantly associated with a higher likelihood 1) of becoming self-employed later in life and 2) of being more successful as an entrepreneur, as approximated by sales. Our results also reinforce the prior evidence on the intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship.
        %K Type A behavior
%K personality
%K self-employment
%K entrepreneurship
%K intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship