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The State of American Entrepreneurship : New Estimates of the Quantity and Quality of Entrepreneurship for 15 US States, 1988-2014

Guzman, Jorge - 2016

entrepreneurship. Building on Guzman and Stern (2015a; 2015b), this paper offers new evidence to inform this debate by estimating … simultaneously account for both the quantity as well as the quality of entrepreneurship: the Entrepreneurial Quality Index (EQI …, measuring the average quality level among a group of start-ups within a given cohort), the Regional Entrepreneurship Cohort …

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The 2021 Paycheck Protection Program Reboot : Loan Disbursement to Employer and Nonemployer Businesses in Minority Communities

Fairlie, Robert W.; Fossen, Frank M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Was the $278 billion reboot of the $800 billion Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) in early 2021 disbursed equitably to minority communities? This paper provides the first analysis of how PPP funds were disbursed to minority communities in the third and final round of the program, which was...

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Minority Student and Teaching Assistant Interactions in STEM

Oliver, Daniel; Fairlie, Robert W.; Millhauser, Glenn; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Graduate student teaching assistants from underrepresented groups may provide salient role models and enhanced instruction to minority students in STEM fields. We explore minority student-TA interactions in an important course in the sciences and STEM - introductory chemistry labs - at a large...

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The Impacts of COVID-19 on Minority Unemployment : First Evidence from April 2020 CPS Microdata

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2020

COVID-19 abruptly impacted the labor market with the unemployment rate jumping to 14.7 percent less than two months after state governments began adopting social distancing measures. Unemployment of this magnitude has not been seen since the Great Depression. This paper provides the first study...

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How is COVID Changing the Geography of Entrepreneurship? Evidence from the Startup Cartography Project

Fazio, Catherine E.; Guzman, Jorge; Liu, Yupeng; Stern, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

changing nature and geography of entrepreneurship in the wake of the COVID pandemic. Consistent with other data sources …

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Behind the GATE Experiment : Evidence on Effects of and Rationales for Subsidized Entrepreneurship Training

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2012

Various theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs … throughout the world. Using data from the largest randomized control trial ever conducted on entrepreneurship training, we …

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Risk Attitudes of Nascent Entrepreneurs: New Evidence from an Experimentally Validated Survey

Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander S. - 2006

The in°uence of risk aversion on the decision to become self-employed is a much discussed topic in the entrepreneurial literature. Conventional wisdom asserts that being an entrepreneur means making risky decisions in uncertain environments; hence more risk-averse individuals are less likely to...

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Mexican-American Entrepreneurship

Fairlie, Robert W.; Woodruff, Christopher - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

Although business ownership has implications for income inequality, wealth accumulation and job creation, surprisingly little research explores why Mexican-Americans are less likely to start businesses and why the businesses that they start are less successful on average than non-Latino whites...

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Risk Attitudes of Nascent Entrepreneurs:New Evidence from anExperimentally-Validated Survey

Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2006

The influence of risk aversion on the decision to become self-employed is a much discussedtopic in the entrepreneurial literature. Conventional wisdom asserts that the role model of anentrepreneur requires to make risky decisions in uncertain environments and hence thatmore risk-averse...

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Horatio Alger Meets the Mobility Tables

Holtz-Eakin, Douglas - 2000

The question of how entrepreneurship relates to income mobility is cogent given the current public debate about the … sources of income inequality and mobility in United States society. We examine how experience with entrepreneurship has … distribution over time, and to see how their mobility (or lack thereof) was affected by involvement with entrepreneurship. Our main …

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