<p>This is unlikely to be a published result in its own right, simply since it is publicly available <a href="http://www.census.gov/ces/dataproducts/bds/data_firm.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>  (click on the row Firm Age).</p>

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<p>Jovanovic (1982) cites Du Rietz (1975) as a source for</p>

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<li>Survival Rates of smaller firms are smaller than for larger firms</li>
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<p>It's his doctoral thesis, and using Swedish data. Is there any recent evidence on this for the United States?</p>

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Survival Rates of Firms
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# Survival Rates of Firms

(Asked by: username_0 on 2015-02-10)

Jovanovic (1982) cites Du Rietz (1975) as a source for

* Survival Rates of smaller firms are smaller than for larger firms

It's his doctoral thesis, and using Swedish data. Is there any recent evidence on this for the United States?

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### Answer by username_1 on 2015-02-11. Score: 2 | Accepted answer

This is unlikely to be a published result in its own right, simply since it is publicly available [here](http://www.census.gov/ces/dataproducts/bds/data_firm.html) (click on the row Firm Age).


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