Research Program on Business Taxation

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.

Comparing Paid Employment and Self-Employment Using the 1984 SIPP
Comparing Paid Employment and Self-Employment Using the 1984 SIPP