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And the Children Shall Lead : Gender Diversity and Performance in Venture Capital
Gompers, Paul A. - 2017
With an overall lack of gender and ethnic diversity in the innovation sector documented in Gompers and Wang (2017), we … answer this question using a unique dataset of the gender of venture capital partners' children. First, we find strong …. Second, using an instrumental variable set-up, we also show that improved gender diversity, induced by parenting more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455227
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The Effects of COVID-19 on U.S. Small Businesses : Evidence from Owners, Managers, and Employees
Alekseev, Georgij - 2020
operating or to re-open. We show how these patterns differ across industry, firm size, owner gender, and other firm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481136
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Support for Paid Family Leave among Small Employers Increases during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Bartel, Ann; Rossin-Slater, Maya; Ruhm, Christopher J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The United States is one of the few countries that does not guarantee paid family leave (PFL) to workers. Proposals for PFL legislation are often met with opposition from employer organizations, who fear disruptions to business, especially among small employers. But there has been limited data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012696395
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Aspirations and Financial Decisions : Experimental Evidence from the Philippines
McKenzie, David J.; Mohpal, Aakash; Yang, Dean - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
A randomized experiment among poor entrepreneurs tested the impact of exogenously inducing higher financial aspirations. In theory, raising aspirations could have positive effects by inducing higher effort, but could also reduce effort if unmet aspirations lead to frustration. Treatment resulted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012496161
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Wealth, Tastes, and Entrepreneurial Choice
Hurst, Erik G. - 2015
The non-pecuniary benefits of managing a small business are a first order consideration for many nascent entrepreneurs, yet the preference for business ownership is mostly ignored in models of entrepreneurship and occupational choice. In this paper, we study a population with varying...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457025
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The Impact of Tax Incentives on the Economic Activity of Entrepreneurs
Harju, Jarkko - 2012
Based on existing evidence, we know little about how the taxation of small business owners affects their economic activity. This paper studies the effect of two Finnish tax reforms, in 1997 and 1998, on the effort decisions of the owners of small businesses utilizing both theoretical model and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460219
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Hoping to Win, Expected to Lose : Theory and Lessons on Micro Enterprise Development
Karlan, Dean - 2012
Many basic economic theories with perfectly functioning markets do not predict the existence of the vast number of microenterprises readily observed across the world. We put forward a model that illuminates why financial and managerial capital constraints may impede experimentation, and thus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460338
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Minority Self-Employment in the United States and the Impact of Affirmative Action Programs
Blanchflower, David G. - 2008
evidence on trends in self-employment for the US by race, ethnicity and gender. Evidence is also presented for construction … which has self-employment rates roughly double the national rates and where there are strikingly high racial and gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464674
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466878
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Learning by Investing : Entrepreneurial Spillovers from Venture Capital
Lerner, Joshua; Li, Jinlin; Liu, Tong - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper studies how investing in venture capital (VC) affects the entrepreneurial outcomes of individual limited partners (LPs). Using comprehensive administrative data on entrepreneurial activities and VC fundraising and investments in China, we first document that individual LPs, on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014437028