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Were Small Businesses More Likely to Permanently Close in the Pandemic?

Fairlie, Robert W.; Fossen, Frank M.; Johnsen, Reid; … - 2022

Previous estimates indicate that COVID-19 led to a large drop in the number of operating businesses operating early in the pandemic, but surprisingly little is known on whether these shutdowns turned into permanent closures and whether small businesses were disproportionately hit. This paper...

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Access to Technology and the Transfer Function of Community Colleges : Evidence from a Field Experiment

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2015

Access to information may represent an important barrier to learning about and ultimately transferring to 4-year … colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in … first-ever field experiment randomly providing free computers to students, we examine the relationships between access to …

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

Couch, Kenneth A. - 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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The Impact of Covid-19 on Small Business Owners : The First Three Months after Social-Distancing Restrictions

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2020

Social distancing restrictions and health- and economic-driven demand shifts from COVID-19 are expected to shutter many small businesses and entrepreneurial ventures, but there is very little early evidence on impacts. This paper provides the first analysis of impacts of the pandemic on the...

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The Impact of Covid-19 on Small Business Owners : Evidence of Early-Stage Losses from the April 2020 Current Population Survey

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2020

Social distancing restrictions and demand shifts from COVID-19 are expected to shutter many small businesses, but there is very little early evidence on impacts. This paper provides the first analysis of impacts of the pandemic on the number of active small businesses in the United States using...

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The Evolving Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Gender Inequality in the U.S. Labor Market : The COVID Motherhood Penalty

Couch, Kenneth A.; Fairlie, Robert W.; Xu, Huanan - 2022

We explore whether COVID-19 disproportionately affected women in the labor market using CPS data through the end of 2020. We find that male-female gaps in the employment-to-population ratio and hours worked for women with school-age children have widened but not for those with younger children....

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