Code for: Stereotypes About Successful Entrepreneurs
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Victor Lyonnet, The Ohio State University; Léa Stern, University of Washington
Version: View help for Version V1
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Project Citation:
Lyonnet, Victor, and Stern, Léa . Code for: Stereotypes About Successful Entrepreneurs. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2023. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2023-05-03. https://doi.org/10.3886/E190484V1
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Summary:
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This is code accompanying the article "Stereotypes About Successful Entrepreneurs". The article asks what comes to mind when thinking about a successful entrepreneur. Belief formation models suggest that what comes to mind is an oversimplified picture of the characteristics of successful entrepreneurs, i.e, stereotypes about successful entrepreneurs. Using French administrative data on 48,767 new firms, we show that some characteristics are stereotypical of success and have distributions that can generate miscalibrated beliefs. To illustrate how stereotypical thinking can lead to biased assessments, we report the discrepancies between the implied fraction of successful entrepreneurs under Bayesian vs. stereotypical thinking for several stereotypes. We discuss the consequences of stereotyping for venture capital allocation.
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entrepreneurship;
startups;
deal selection;
stereotypes;
venture capital
JEL Classification:
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G24 Investment Banking; Venture Capital; Brokerage; Ratings and Ratings Agencies
G41 Behavioral Finance: Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making in Financial Markets
J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
L26 Entrepreneurship
M13 New Firms; Startups
G24 Investment Banking; Venture Capital; Brokerage; Ratings and Ratings Agencies
G41 Behavioral Finance: Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making in Financial Markets
J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
L26 Entrepreneurship
M13 New Firms; Startups
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