Halvorsen publishes paper on later-life entrepreneurship

Assistant Professor Cal Halvorsen published “The diversity of interest in later-life entrepreneurship: Results from a nationally representative survey of Americans aged 50 to 70” in PLoS ONE in June. Based on those findings, he published an op-ed in July that appeared in both Forbes and PBS Next Avenue about decreasing racial disparities in entrepreneurship.

He also published an entry on later-life self-employment in the Encyclopedia of Gerontology and Population Aging and co-wrote an op-ed on the role of ageism in the presidential race that was featured in both Forbes and PBS Next Avenue. He was interviewed on WGBH’s Greater Boston television program about financial security and retirement as well as for an article in BBC News on the benefits of hiring older workers. He was also featured in the new book by Kerry Hannon, Never Too Old to Get Rich: The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Starting a Business Mid-Life, published this June.