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Black and White : Access to Capital among Minority-Owned Startups
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2020
We use confidential and restricted-access data from the Kauffman Firm Survey and matched administrative data on credit scores to explore racial disparities in access to capital for new business ventures. The novel results on racial inequality in startup financing indicate that black-owned...
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Jim Crow in the Saddle : The Expulsion of African American Jockeys from American Racing
Leeds, Michael - 2020
Between the Civil War and the turn of the nineteenth century there were many prominent African American jockeys. They rode winners in all of the Triple-Crown races. But at the turn of the century they were forced out. This paper uses a new data set on the Triple-Crown races, which includes odds...
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Clusters of Entrepreneurship
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2009
. A second class of theories hypothesizes that some places are endowed with a greater supply of entrepreneurship. Evidence … on sales per worker does not support the higher returns for entrepreneurship rationale. Our evidence suggests that … entrepreneurship is higher when fixed costs are lower and when there are more entrepreneurial people …
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The Stability of the American Business Elite
Temin, Peter - 1998
This paper begins the task of explaining why the American business elite has remained white, male and mostly native-born Protestants for a century, as verified in a previous paper (Temin, 1997). I argue that the evidence is inconsistent with the hypotheses that the stability is due to...
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Racial Protests and Credit Access
Garcia, Raffi E.; Ortega, Alberto - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We examine the impact of local racial demonstrations, such as Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests, and the subsequent racial justice movement following the death of George Floyd on racial disparities in Paycheck Protection Program loan disbursements to small businesses. Using...
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The Black youth employment crisis
Freeman, Richard B. (ed.); Holzer, Harry J. (contributor) - 1986
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Race and the Value of Owner-Occupied Housing, 1940-1990
Collins, William J. - 2000
The racial gap in the value of owner occupied housing has narrowed substantially since 1940, but this narrowing has not been even over time or across space. The 1970s stand out as an unusual decade in which the value gap did not narrow despite continued convergence in the observed...
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Race and Home Ownership, 1900 to 1990
Collins, William J. - 1999
The historical evolution of racial differences in income in the 20th century United States has been examined intensively by economists, but the evolution of racial differences in wealth has been examined far less. This paper uses IPUMS data to study trends in racial differences in home ownership...
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The Dynamics of Educational Attainment for Blacks, Hispanics, and Whites
Cameron, Stephen V. - 1999
This paper estimates a dynamic model of schooling attainment to investigate the sources of discrepancy by race and ethnicity in college attendance. When the returns to college education rose, college enrollment of whites responded much more quickly than that of minorities. Parental income is a...
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Trends in Self-Employment Among White and Black Men : 1910-1990
Fairlie, Robert W. - 1999
We examine trends in self-employment among white and black men from 1910 to 1990 using Census and CPS microdata. Self-employment rates fell over most of the century and then started to rise after 1970. For white men, we find that the decline was due to declining rates within industries, but was...
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