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The Personal Computer and Entrepreneurship

Fairlie, Robert W. - In: Management Science 52 (2006) 2, pp. 187-203

explore the relationship between computer ownership and entrepreneurship. Trends over the past two decades provide some … evidence of a positive relationship between home computers and entrepreneurship rates, but the evidence is not clear. In … contrast, an analysis of the relationship between computer ownership and entrepreneurship at the individual level provides …

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A Community College Instructor Like Me: Race and Ethnicity Interactions in the Classroom

Fairlie, Robert W.; Hoffmann, Florian; Oreopoulos, Philip - In: American Economic Review 104 (2014) 8, pp. 2567-91

Administrative data from a large and diverse community college are used to examine if underrepresented minority students benefit from taking courses with underrepresented minority instructors. To identify racial interactions we estimate models that include both student and classroom fixed...

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Does Immigration Hurt African-American Self-Employment?

Meyer, Bruce D.; Fairlie, Robert W. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1997

Previous studies tend to find that immigration has a weak negative effect on the employment and earnings of native-born workers. These studies overlook the effect of immigration on an important sector of the labor force, the self- employed. Anecdotal evidence suggests that immigrants, especially...

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The Impact of City Contracting Set-Asides on Black Self-Employment and Employment

Chay, Kenneth; Fairlie, Robert W.; Chatterji, Aaron K. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

In the 1980s, many U.S. cities initiated programs reserving a proportion of government contracts for minority-owned businesses. The staggered introduction of these set-aside programs is used to estimate their impacts on the self-employment and employment rates of African-American men. Black...

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Entrepreneurship training, risk aversion and other personality traits: Evidence from a random experiment

Fairlie, Robert W.; Holleran, William - In: Journal of Economic Psychology 33 (2012) 2, pp. 366-378

A growing literature examines the relationship between personality traits and entrepreneurship, but no previous studies … explore whether personality or psychological traits predispose individuals to benefit more from entrepreneurship training. To … address selection issues, we use novel data from the largest-ever randomized control experiment providing entrepreneurship …

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The Five Gaps Facing Small and Microbusiness Owners: Evidence From New York City

Servon, Lisa J.; Fairlie, Robert W.; Rastello, Blaise; … - In: Economic Development Quarterly 24 (2010) 2, pp. 126-142

Small businesses play a critical role in economic development. Over the past 20 years, policies and programs have sought to increase the potential success of these businesses. Yet little is known about the extent to which these policies and programs respond to the specific needs of business...

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