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The Causal Link between Relative Age Effect and Entrepreneurship : Evidence from 17 Million Users across 49 Years on Taobao
Wang, Youwei - 2018
We use an extensive panel of 17 million individuals born between 1947 and 1995 from China's largest online marketplace, Taobao, to study the impact of RAE on the propensity to become an entrepreneur. Using events surrounding the Cultural Revolution and the issuance of the Compulsory Education...
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Reluctant Entrepreneurs : Evidence from China's SOE Reform
Fang, Hanming; Li, Ming; Wu, Zenan; Zhang, Yapei - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study the impact of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) on the quality of entrepreneurship in China. Using long series of … high-skilled SOE employees were reluctantly unleashed into entrepreneurship. We also provide corroborating evidence for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014372457
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Long-term Direct and Spillover Effects of Job Training : Experimental Evidence from Colombia
Kugler, Adriana - 2015
We use administrative data to examine medium and long-term formal education and labor market impacts among participants and family members of a randomized vocational training program for disadvantaged youth in Colombia. In the Colombian program, vocational training and formal education are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457062
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The 2021 Paycheck Protection Program Reboot : Loan Disbursement to Employer and Nonemployer Businesses in Minority Communities
Fairlie, Robert W.; Fossen, Frank M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Was the $278 billion reboot of the $800 billion Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) in early 2021 disbursed equitably to minority communities? This paper provides the first analysis of how PPP funds were disbursed to minority communities in the third and final round of the program, which was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938701
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Efficacy vs. Equity : What Happens When States Tinker with College Admissions in a Race-Blind Era?
Black, Sandra E. - 2014
College admissions officers face a rapidly changing policy environment where court decisions have limited the use of affirmative action. At the same time, there is mounting evidence that commonly used signals of college readiness, such as the SAT/ACTs, are subject to race and socioeconomic bias....
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Can a Summer Make a Difference? The Impact of the American Economic Association Summer Program on Minority Student Outcomes
Becker, Charles M. - 2014
In the 1970s, the American Economic Association (AEA) was one of several professional associations to launch a summer program with the goal of increasing racial and ethnic diversity in its profession. In this paper we estimate the effectiveness of the AEA's program which, to the best of our...
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Performance and structures of the German science system 2022
Stephen, Dimity; Stahlschmidt, Stephan - Deutsches Zentrum für Hochschul- und Wissenschaftsforschung - 2022 - Stand: Februar 2022
This study updates the annual comparative analysis of the performance and structures of the German science system. We use several bibliometric indicators of productivity and academic impact to assess Germany's performance for the period 1995-2020 compared against 22 countries and the EU13, EU14,...
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The Right Stuff? Personality and Entrepreneurship
Hamilton, Barton H. - 2018
entrepreneurship. Previous work has recognized that workers may opt for self-employment due to the non-pecuniary benefits of running a … reveals that the personality traits that make entrepreneurship profitable are not always the same traits driving people to … open a business. This has important consequences for entrepreneurship policies. For example, subsidies for small businesses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480659
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Doing Business in China : Parental Background and Government Intervention Determine Who Owns Businesses
Jia, Ruixue; Lan, Xiaohuan; Padró i Miquel, Gerard - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
While intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship is a well-known regularity, we hypothesize that in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012496100
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How is COVID Changing the Geography of Entrepreneurship? Evidence from the Startup Cartography Project
Fazio, Catherine E.; Guzman, Jorge; Liu, Yupeng; Stern, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
changing nature and geography of entrepreneurship in the wake of the COVID pandemic. Consistent with other data sources …
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