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BY Sarah Bregel

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If you thought entrepreneurship was too stressful a path to venture down, you might want to reassess. A new study found that there may be a surprising benefit to starting a business: longevity.

The study, titled “Do Entrepreneurs Live Longer?,” comes from researchers at the School of Business at Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey and was published in the Journal of Business on October 22. For the research, associate professor Cristiano Bellavitis and his collaborators examined 20 years of data from 27,501 Americans 50 and older.

Interestingly, it found that those who work for themselves may live longer than those who spend the bulk of their lives working for others: Entrepreneurs had a 10% lower risk of premature death.…