Self-employment and attitudes towards risk: Timing and unobserved heterogeneity

Journal of Economic Psychology

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 425-433

  Brown, Sarah ^a   Dietrich, Michael ^a   Ortiz Nuñez, Aurora ^a   Taylor, Karl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Risk attitudes; Self employment

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956025772     PISSN: 01674870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joep.2011.02.015     Document Type: Article

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