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Politics, Relief, and Reform : The Transformation of America's Social Welfare System during the New Deal

Wallis, John Joseph - 2005

The American social welfare system was transformed during the 1930s. Prior to the New Deal public relief was administered almost exclusively by local governments. The administration of local public relief was widely thought to be corrupt. Beginning in 1933, federal, state, and local governments...

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The defining moment : the Great Depression and the American economy in the twentieth century

Bordo, Michael D. (ed.); Goldin, Claudia (ed.); … - 1998

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Entrepreneurship and the City

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2007

Why do levels of entrepreneurship differ across America's cities? This paper presents basic facts on two measures of … entrepreneurship: the self-employment rate and the number of small firms. Both of these measures are correlated with urban success … entrepreneurship is linked to a large number of small firms in supplying industries. Finally, there is a strong connection between area …

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Intuit QuickBooks Small Business Index : A New Employment Series for the US, Canada, and the UK

Akcigit, Ufuk; Chhina, Raman; Cilasun, Seyit Mümin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Small and young businesses are essential for job creation, innovation, and economic growth. Even most of the superstar firms start their business life small and then grow over time. Small firms have less internal resources, which makes them more fragile and sensitive to macroeconomic conditions....

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Biomedical Academic Entrepreneurship Through the SBIR Program

Toole, Andrew A. - 2005

entrepreneurship. We highlight two main characteristics of the program that make it attractive as an entrepreneurship policy: early … the incidence of biomedical entrepreneurship through SBIR and describe some of the characteristics of these individuals …

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The Government as Venture Capitalist : The Long-Run Effects of the SBIR Program

Lerner, Josh - 1996

Public programs to provide early-stage financing to firms, particularly high-technology companies, have become commonplace in the United States and abroad. The long-run effectiveness of these programs, however, has attracted little empirical scrutiny. This paper examines the impact of the...

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Trends in the Retirement Preparedness of Black and Hispanic Households in the US

Wolff, Edward N. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

. Hispanics also experienced a setback in mean retirement income but continued progress in replacement rates and reducing poverty …

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Which Mexicans Are White? : Enumerator-Assigned Race in the 1930 Census and the Socioeconomic Integration of Mexican Americans

Duncan, Brian; Trejo, Stephen J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The authors explore unique complete-count data from the 1930 Census in which a respondent's race was assigned by enumerators and "Mexican" was one of the possible responses. Census enumerators frequently and selectively assigned a non-Mexican race--predominantly "white"--to U.S.-born individuals...

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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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Intra-Ethnic Diversity in Hispanic Child Mortality, 1890-1910

Gutmann, Myron P. - 1998

-Hispanic whites but slightly lower than for nonwhite, non-Hispanics (mostly African Americans). Hispanic rural, farm populations in …

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