Wealth, Tastes, and Entrepreneurial Choice

We would like to thank Fernando Alvarez, Jaroslav Borovicka, Patrick Kline, Augustin Landier, Josh Lerner, E.J. Reedy, Jim Poterba, Sarada, Andrei Shleifer, Mihkel Tombak, and seminar participants at Boston College, the 2011 Duke/Kauffman Entrepreneurship Conference, the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Harvard Business School, the Institute for Fiscal Studies, 2011 International Industrial Organization Conference, London School of Economics, MIT, NBER 2010 Summer Institute Entrepreneurship Workshop, Penn State, Stanford University, University of Chicago, and the 2014 NBER/CRIW Conference on Entrepreneurship for their comments on an earlier version of this paper. Hurst gratefully acknowledges financial support from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. Pugsley gratefully acknowledges financial support from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation dissertation fellowship. Any opinions and conclusions expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the views of the U.S. Census Bureau, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York or the Federal Reserve System. All results have been reviewed to ensure that no confidential information is disclosed. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.