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Immigrant Entrepreneurship : New Estimates and a Research Agenda

Chodavadia, Saheel; Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Immigrants contribute disproportionately to entrepreneurship in many countries, accounting for a quarter of new employer businesses in the US. We review recent research on the measurement of immigrant entrepreneurship, the traits of immigrant founders, their economic impact, and policy levers....

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Whose Job Is It Anyway? Co-Ethnic Hiring in New U.S. Ventures

Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We explore co-ethnic hiring among new ventures using U.S. administrative data. Co-ethnic hiring is ubiquitous among immigrant groups, averaging about 22.5% and ranging from <2% to >40%. Co-ethnic hiring grows with the size of the local ethnic workforce, greater linguistic distance to English, lower...</2%>

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Social Networks, Ethnicity, and Entrepreneurship

Kerr, William R. - 2015

We study the relationship between ethnicity, occupational choice, and entrepreneurship. Immigrant groups in the United … interactions where non-work relationships facilitate the acquisition of sector-specific skills. The resulting scale economies …

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Parental Incentives and Early Childhood Achievement : A Field Experiment in Chicago Heights

Fryer, Roland G, Jr - 2015

This article describes a randomized field experiment in which parents were provided financial incentives to engage in behaviors designed to increase early childhood cognitive and executive function skills through a parent academy. Parents were rewarded for attendance at early childhood sessions,...

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An Empirical Analysis of the Gender Gap in Mathematics

Fryer, Roland G, Jr - 2009

We document and analyze the emergence of a substantial gender gap in mathematics in the early years of schooling using … score gap that appears over these same ages. We document the presence of this gender math gap across every strata of society …, we find that earlier results linking the gender gap in math to measures of gender equality are sensitive to the inclusion …

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