How Wealth and Age Interact to Affect Entrepreneurship

Philippe d’Astous (), Vyacheslav Mikhed, Sahil Raina and Barry Scholnick
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No 25-03, Working Papers from Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

Abstract: Using wealth windfalls from lottery winnings and matched employer-employee tax files, we compare the effect of additional wealth on the entrepreneurial activity of older and younger individuals. We find that additional wealth leads older winners (aged 55 and older) to reduce business ownership and scale. In contrast, additional wealth leads younger winners to increase business ownership and performance. We also show that extra lottery wealth reduces the wage labor supply of both younger and older individuals. Thus, while younger lottery winners reduce wage labor to increase entrepreneurship, older lottery winners reduce both wage labor and entrepreneurship to retire

Keywords: Wealth; Age; Entrepreneurship; Labor Supply (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G5 G51 J22 L26 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 43
Date: 2025-01-30
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DOI: 10.21799/frbp.wp.2025.03

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