Contact Information

Ellen R. McGrattan
4-161 Hanson Hall
612-625-6714
erm@umn.edu

Office Hours
By appointment

Mailing Address
Department of Economics
University of Minnesota
4-101 Hanson Hall
1925 4th St S
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Research Materials











The Returns to Self-Employment



As part of his thesis work, Sam Jordan-Wood is studying the returns to self-employment compared to paid employment by first replicating Barton Hamilton's "Does Entrepreneurship Pay? An Analysis of the Returns to Self-Employent" and second, updating Hamilton's work with more recent data.


Read an in progress version of Sam's thesis, "Analyzing the Returns to Self-Employment: A Reassessment of the Benefits and Reasons for Engaging in Self-Employment" here.


Comparing Paid Employment and Self-Employment Using the 1984 SIPP