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Underdog Entrepreneurs : A Framework of Success for Marginalized and Minority Innovators

Morgan, Horatio M. - 2020 - 1st ed. 2020

Entrepreneurship is challenging, whatever your background, in the current science- and technology-driven Western world …

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Thriving As a Minority-Owned Business in Corporate America : Building a Pathway to Success for Minority Entrepreneurs

Cunningham, William Michael - 2021

Chapter 1: Minority Business Now -- Chapter 2: The State of Minority Business -- Chapter 3: Selected Laws, Programs, and Regulations -- Chapter 4: Public Sector Institutions -- Chapter 5: Business Networking -- Chapter 6: Money: Digital Payment Services, Credit, Banks, Venture Capital and Other...

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Disadvantaged minorities in business : this title was inspired by Ivan Light who coined the term "Disadvantaged minorities" in 1979

Dana, Leo Paul (ed.); Khachlouf, Nada (ed.); … - 2022

entrepreneurs and their selection of location -- Immigrant entrepreneurship and dynamics of being (dis)advantaged: An exploratory … Challenges of Disabled Entrepreneurs in a Developing Country -- Refugee Entrepreneurship in Germany: an Institutional Voids … in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia -- From retirement to entrepreneurship through skills, attitude and technological …

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Affirmative Action : One Size Does Not Fit All

Krishna, Kala - 2013

This paper identifies a new reason for giving preferences to the disadvantaged using a model of contests. There are two forces at work: the effort effect working against giving preferences and the selection effect working for them. When education is costly and easy to obtain (as in the U.S.),...

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University Differences in the Graduation of Minorities in Stem Fields : Evidence from California

Arcidiacono, Peter - 2013

The low number of college graduates with science degrees -- particularly among under-represented minorities -- is of growing concern. We examine differences across universities in graduating students in different fields. Using student-level data on the University of California system during a...

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Can Universal Screening Increase the Representation of Low Income and Minority Students in Gifted Education?

Card, David - 2015

Low income and minority students are under-represented in gifted education programs. One explanation for this pattern is that the usual process for identifying gifted students, through parent and teacher referrals, systematically misses many potentially qualified disadvantaged students. We use...

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Efficacy vs. Equity : What Happens When States Tinker with College Admissions in a Race-Blind Era?

Black, Sandra E. - 2015

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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Storable Votes and Judicial Nominations in the U.S. Senate

Casella, Alessandra - 2014

We model a procedural reform aimed at restoring a proper role for the minority in the confirmation process of judicial nominations in the U.S. Senate. We analyze a proposal that would call for nominations to the same level court to be collected in periodic lists and voted upon individually with...

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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 - 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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Guns and Votes

Bouton, Laurent - 2014

Why are U.S. congressmen reluctant to support gun control regulations, despite the fact that most Americans are in favor of them? We argue that re-election motives can lead politicians to take a pro-gun stance against the interests of an apathetic majority of the electorate, but in line with the...

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