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Why are black-owned businesses less successful than white-owned businesses? : The role of families, inheritances, and business human capital

Fairlie, Robert W. (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

Four decades ago, Nathan Glazer and Daniel Patrick Moynihan made the argument that the black family "was not strong enough to create those extended clans that elsewhere were most helpful for businessmen and professionals." Using data from the confidential and restricted access Characteristics of...

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Analyzing social experiments as implemented : a reexamination of the evidence from the HighScope Perry Preschool Program

Heckman, James J.; Moon, Seong Hyeok; Pinto, Rodrigo; … - 2010

Social experiments are powerful sources of information about the effectiveness of interventions. In practice, initial randomization plans are almost always compromised. Multiple hypotheses are frequently tested. "Significant" effects are often reported with p-values that do not account for...

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Families, human capital, and small business : evidence from the characteristics of business owners survey

Fairlie, Robert W. (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

An important finding in the rapidly growing literature on self-employment is that the probability of self-employment is substantially higher among the children of business owners than among the children of non-business owners. Using data from the confidential and restrictedaccess Characteristics...

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Creating a policy environment for entrepreneurs

Garrett, Thomas Andrew (contributor); … - 2005

"This paper demonstrates that levels of entrepreneurship can be greatly affected by the general policy environment …. Using a state-level panel, we estimate the effects of several policy variables on rates of entrepreneurship and find that … bankruptcy exemptions, corporate tax rates, and the level of the minimum wage all affect a state's rate of entrepreneurship. For …

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Entrepreneurship and the policy environment

Georgellis, Yannis (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource], rev

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Entrepreneurship and the deregulation of banking

Wall, Howard J. (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Lazear, Edward P. (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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