Is your smart, but totally independent-minded teenager driving you crazy? If you've rolled your eyes with a yes, I have good news: your child might just make a fabulous entrepreneur one day. 

A National Bureau of Economic Research working paper, "Smart and Illicit: Who Becomes and Entrepreneur and Does it Pay?" by Ross Levine and Yona Rubinstein picked apart a variety of social, demographic, and personality traits to figure out who becomes an entrepreneur and how successful they are relative to everyone else.

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