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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 …

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Estimating the Impact of Microcredit on Those Who Take It Up : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Morocco

Crépon, Bruno - 2014

This paper reports the results from a randomized evaluation of a microcredit program introduced in rural areas of Morocco starting in 2006 by Al Amana, the country's largest microfinance institution. Al Amana was the only MFI operating in the study areas during the evaluation period. Thirteen...

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Tax Enforcement and Tax Policy : Evidence on Taxpayer Responses to EITC Correspondence Audits

Guyton, John - 2018

Each year, the United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS) sends notices to selected taxpayers who claim Earned Income Tax credit (EITC) benefits to request additional documentation to verify those claims. This paper uses administrative tax data to examine the impacts of these correspondence...

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An Analysis of the Impact of Affirmative Action Programs on Self-Employment in the Construction Industry

Blanchflower, David G. - 2005

The main findings of this paper are that despite the existence of various affirmative action programs designed to improve the position of women and minorities in public construction, little has changed in the last twenty five years. We present evidence showing that where race conscious...

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Crises, COVID-19, and entrepreneurship : editorial

Batjargal, Bat; Jack, Sarah; Mickiewicz, Tomasz; Stam, Erik - In: Entrepreneurship theory and practice : ET&P 47 (2023) 3, pp. 651-661

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Political Reservations and Women's Entrepreneurship in India

Ghani, Ejaz - 2014

heightened entrepreneurship is due to channels like greater finance access or heightened inspiration for women entrepreneurs …

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Do Multinationals' R&D Activities Stimulate Indigenous Entrepreneurship? Evidence from China's "Silicon Valley"

Cai, Hongbin - 2007

) affect local entrepreneurship and R&D activities upon entry. We find that R&D activities of MNEs in an industry stimulate …

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The Impact of Covid-19 on Small Business Owners : Evidence of Early-Stage Losses from the April 2020 Current Population Survey

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2020

Social distancing restrictions and demand shifts from COVID-19 are expected to shutter many small businesses, but there is very little early evidence on impacts. This paper provides the first analysis of impacts of the pandemic on the number of active small businesses in the United States using...

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Entrepreneurial Reluctance : Talent and Firm Creation in China

Bai, Chong-En; Jia, Ruixue; Li, Hongbin; Wang, Xin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

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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Democratic governance, kinship networks, and entrepreneurial development : evidence from rural China

Zhou, Wubiao; Xu, Tuoqian - In: Entrepreneurship theory and practice : ET&P 48 (2024) 2, pp. 645-674

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