Events Detail

Betsy and Walter Stern Conference Center

Hudson Institute

1015 15th Street, N.W., 6^th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20005

How much do savings help entrepreneurs?  Professors Erik Hurst of the University of Chicago and Annamaria Lusardi of Dartmouth College present a paper showing the relationship between wealth and entry into entrepreneurship.   They find that accumulated savings are likely to influence people to be  entrepreneurs at the top of the wealth distribution—after the 95th percentile. The program opens with a keynote address by the Honorable Ann Combs, Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of Labor, on measures that may be taken to increase savings.

9:00 a.m.

Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:30 a.m.

Keynote Address

Honorable Ann Combs, Assistant Secretary, Employee Benefits Security Administration, U.S. Department of Labor

10:00 a.m.

Presenters:

Erik Hurst, University of Chicago

Annamaria Lusardi, Dartmouth College

Discussant:

Petra Todd, University of Pennsylvania

Moderator:

Diana Furchtgott-Roth, Hudson Institute

To RSVP (acceptances only) or to request information, please contact Hudson Institute at  202.974.6451 or e-mail Xiuyue Zhu at Xiuyue@hudson.org.

Hudson’s Center for Employment Policy is grateful to the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation for the support of this program.