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In this paper we explore whether or not the experience as a founder of a venture capital-backed startup influences the performance of founders who become venture capitalists (VCs). We find that nearly 7% of VCs were previously founders of a venture-backed startup. Having a successful exit and...
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In this paper we use micro-level data on employers and employees to investigate whether Affirmative Action procedures lead firms to hire minority or female employees who are less qualified than workers who might otherwise be hired. Our measures of qualifications include the educational...
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We study the medium-term impacts of the Skills for Effective Entrepreneurship Development (SEED) program, an innovative …
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Our simple model features agents heterogeneous in skill and risk aversion, incomplete financial markets, and redistributive taxation. In equilibrium, agents become entrepreneurs if their skill is sufficiently high or risk aversion sufficiently low. Under heavier taxation, entrepreneurs are more...
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Various theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs … throughout the world. Using data from the largest randomized control trial ever conducted on entrepreneurship training, we …
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, where education increases the level of entrepreneurship. Human capital spillovers occur at the city level because skilled … productivity or entrepreneurship, not with growth in quality of life, at least outside of the West. We also find that skills seem …
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established by non-star analysts. Extending traditional theories of entrepreneurship and labor mobility, our results also suggest … that drivers of turnover vary by destination: (a) turnover to entrepreneurship and (b) other turnover. In contrast to … turnover to entrepreneurship, star analysts are less likely to move to other firms than non-star analysts …
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entrepreneurship. We highlight two main characteristics of the program that make it attractive as an entrepreneurship policy: early … the incidence of biomedical entrepreneurship through SBIR and describe some of the characteristics of these individuals …
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The theoretical literature has long noted that talent can be used in both the entrepreneurial and non-entrepreneurial sectors, and its allocation depends on the reward structure. We test these hypotheses by linking administrative college admissions data for 1.8 million individuals with the...
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), discouraging innovative product competition and entrepreneurship. The larger part of cost escalation in US health care can be …
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