Entrepreneurship and Household Saving

Gentry William M. () and Hubbard R. Glenn ()
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Gentry William M.: Williams College
Hubbard R. Glenn: Columbia University

The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2004, vol. 4, issue 1, 1-57

Abstract: Using data from the 1983 and 1989 Federal Reserve Board Surveys of Consumer Finances, we quantify three findings about entrepreneurial saving decisions and their role in household wealth accumulation. First, entrepreneurial households own a substantial share of household wealth and income, and this share increases throughout the wealth distribution and the income distribution. Second, the portfolios of entrepreneurial households, even wealthy ones, are very undiversified, with the bulk of assets held within active businesses. Third, wealth-income ratios and saving rates are higher for entrepreneurial households even after controlling for age and other demographic variables. Taken together, these findings suggest that studies of household saving decisions in general and of the savings decisions of wealthy or high-income households in particular have paid insufficient attention to the role of entrepreneurial decisions and their role in wealth accumulation.

Date: 2004
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DOI: 10.2202/1538-0637.1053

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