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Fairlie, Robert W.; Lofstrom, Magnus - 2015

attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not surprisingly, a large body of research on immigrant entrepreneurship has … fundamental immigrant entrepreneurship issues as well as the empirical methods and data used. The main themes we address are … immigrant entrepreneurs’ contributions to the economy, entrepreneurship differences across groups and group differences in …

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Why are black-owned business less successful than white-owned business? : the role of families, inheritances, and business human capital

Fairlie, Robert W.; Robb, Alicia M. - In: Journal of labor economics 25 (2007) 2, pp. 289-323

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Financial capital, human capital, and the transition to self-employment : evidence from intergenerational links

Dunn, Thomas A.; Holtz-Eakin, Douglas - In: Journal of labor economics 18 (2000) 2, pp. 282-305

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Global Collaborative Patents

Pekkala, Sari; Kerr, William R. - 2016

We study the prevalence and traits of global collaborative patents for U.S. public companies, where the inventor team is located both within and outside of the United States. Collaborative patents are frequently observed when a corporation is entering into a new foreign region for innovative...

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Multigenerational Transmission of Culture

Spiro, Daniel - 2019

This paper explores intergenerational transmission of culture and the consequences of a plausible assumption: that people care not only for their children’s culture but also for how their grand-children are raised. This departs from the previous literature which, without exception, assumes...

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Slave prices, geography and insolation in 19th century African-American stature

Carson, Scott Alan - 2007

The use of height data to measure living standards is now a well-established method in the economic literature. Moreover, while much is known about 19th century black legal and material conditions, less is known about how 19th century institutional arrangements were related to black stature....

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Women's education and family behavior: Trends in marriage, divorce and fertility

Isen, Adam; Stevenson, Betsey - 2010

This paper examines how marital and fertility patterns have changed along racial and educational lines for men and women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap has eroded as the returns to marriage have changed....

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Gender and racial biases: Evidence from child adoption

Baccara, Mariagiovanna; Collard-Wexler, Allan; Felli, … - 2010

This paper uses a new data set on domestic child adoption to document the preferences of potential adoptive parents over born and unborn babies relinquished for adoption by their birth mothers. We show that adoptive parents exhibit significant biases in favor of girls and against...

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Geography and insolation in 19th century US African-American and white statures

Carson, Scott Alan - 2008

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Nineteenth century black and white US statures: the primary sources of vitamin D and their relationship with height

Carson, Scott Alan - 2008

Vitamin D is vital in all vertebrates because it allows them to absorb more calcium from their diets, contributing to stronger skeletal systems and stature growth. Using a new source of 19th century US state prison records, this study contrasts the statures of comparable African-Americans and...

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