The Effect of Ability on Young Men’s Self-Employment Decision: Evidence from the NELS

Ozkan Eren and Ozan Sula

No 913, Working Papers from University of Nevada, Las Vegas , Department of Economics

Abstract: Using the National Educational Longitudinal Study data, we examine the role of pre-market abilities, as well as other determinants, on young men’s self-employment decision. Our results indicate that cognitive and noncognitive abilities are two important, in opposing directions, predictors of self-employment. We also find that cognitive and noncognitive abilities differ in their malleability with the latter being more malleable during adolescence. In addition, having a self-employed father, being black and family size exert large influences on self-employment probability.

Keywords: Cognitive Ability; Endogeneity; Intergenerational Correlation; Malleability; Noncognitive Ability. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C25 J0 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25 pages
Date: 2009-04
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