This post examines whether entrepreneurs are influenced by their fathers, mothers, spouses, and siblings. The General Social Survey (GSS) reports statistics on those who are self-employed. The data show that, overall, the percentage of respondents who indicated they were self-employed has not changed perceptibly between 1972 and 2018. Figure 1, below, shows that the percent […]
Month: July 2020
This post finds that suicide rates (deaths per 100,000 people) are four times higher in rural areas than in large metropolitan areas. Furthermore, men have higher rates of suicide than women across all metropolitan and rural areas. Suicide rates for Asians and American Indians were highest in rural areas compared with Whites and Blacks. And, […]
Recreational reading has been on the rise. In this post, I examine the consumption of recreational books and examine who is reading for leisure. I find that leisure readers tend to be female, older, White, unemployed, high earners (for those who are employed), highly educated, and have no household children. Figure 1, below, shows the […]
This post tackles whether those who work with their hands earn a premium and have brighter job prospects than those who work with machines. The headline result is that those who work exclusively with their hands and those who work exclusively with machines make more money than those who work with their hands and machines […]