We examine the impact of local racial demonstrations, such as Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests, and the subsequent … improved credit access for Black business owners. Additionally, the increased social media and public attention following Floyd … distributed to Black owners relative to other racial-ethnic groups. Our findings indicate that both implicit and explicit racial …

financing of startups. Female founders manage 16-25% of all startups, while Black entrepreneurs rarely exceed 3% of the startup … article considers one friction that currently affects a small, but important, set of entrepreneurs: racial and gender … underrepresented founders. The article ends with an extensive set of research ideas motivated by the gaps in the entrepreneurship …

back. Black entrepreneurs apply for loans less often than white entrepreneurs largely because they expect to be denied … in startup financing indicate that black-owned startups start smaller and stay smaller over the entire first eight years … of their existence. Black startups face more difficulty in raising external capital, especially external debt. We find …

12 matriculation exam) are strong predictors of post-secondary enrollment and statistically account for all of the black …

We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries …. Our data come from the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs, a random sample of firms with detailed information on owner …

discontinuity in Finland that allows certain entrepreneurs not to pay social insurance contributions on their income. Using rich … administrative data, we find that relaxing the social insurance mandate leads entrepreneurs to significantly reduce their …

Platforms often have "crowds" of amateurs working on them as complementors, in other cases professional entrepreneurs …

Serial entrepreneurs, who open more than one business, are found to have higher sales and higher productivity than … novice entrepreneurs, who open one business. Using panel data on entrepreneurs and their firms from Denmark for 2001 … entrepreneurs that hold a portfolio of overlapping ongoing firms perform the best, as do those that open as limited liability firm …