GATE-Lab, Lyon · 2016–2018 · n = 122

Thirty-Two Measures

Every characteristic collected outside the laboratory games in the Emlyon entrepreneurship experiment, tested the same way across the three-way classification — so that what is null is null on the record rather than by omission.

Methods in full →

122subjects

32measures tested here

3reach the 5% level

78 / 16 / 28non-entrepreneurs,
future, entrepreneurs

rises non → future → entrepreneur falls each mark is scaled to its own row

Reading these tables

Specification. Group means, then the coefficients on Future entrepreneur and Entrepreneur from an OLS regression on the three-way classification with controls for age, gender, broad income and broad education, robust standard errors, non-entrepreneur omitted. Sample of 122.

This is a screen, not the estimator of record. OLS is used throughout so the columns read across measures; it is the wrong estimator for some. The seven laboratory games are not here — they appear in the chapter's own tables, each with the estimator appropriate to it.

Coverage varies. The online-experiment measures rest on the 76 subjects with online data, a subsample selected on entrepreneurial classification. The first-wave-only survey items rest on 86 to 89, and the personality, locus-of-control and grit blocks on about 100, because the intake survey was administered in two parts.

How many measures. Thirty-two are listed here. Counting the seven laboratory games, the study tested thirty-eight in all.

Methods. How the study was designed, fielded and analysed — sessions, instruments, power, what went wrong — is on the companion page, Methods in full.

Everything in the archive. Open Stata in the folder holding chapter_analysis.do and run it to reproduce every number in the chapter. All three datasets are needed and none reproduces it alone. README.md says what each one carries, how the de-identification was done, and which block of the do-file produces which table.

chapter_analysis.do Stata 18 SE
ent_djc_3.dta the cross section
ent_djc_4.dta the 2018 follow-up
ent_final2.dta Phase 3 online measures
Laboratory screens what subjects saw, in order
Online experiment screens all five incentivized tasks
Survey I, intake self-efficacy, intent, job risk
Survey II risk, patience, Big Five, grit
Follow-up survey, 2018 two years on
methods-appendix.md the methods page as markdown

Not included. Raven's Progressive Matrices and the Reading the Mind in the Eyes photographs are copyrighted and the Cognitive Style Index is licensed, so all three have been removed. README.md records exactly what came out and from where. The z-Tree and oTree programs are available on request from ksaral@charlotte.edu.

Source. Produced by chapter_analysis.do. Supplementary material for Cooper, Dubard Barbosa, Saral, and Villeval, Entrepreneurship and Behavioral Characteristics.