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Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions
Arcidiacono, Peter; Kinsler, Josh; Ransom, Tyler - 2022
Detecting racial discrimination using observational data is challenging because of the presence of unobservables that may be correlated with race. Using data made public in the SFFA v. Harvard case, we estimate discrimination in a setting where this concern is mitigated. Namely, we show that...
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Black and White : Access to Capital Among Minority-Owned Startups
Fairlie, Robert W.; Robb, Alicia; Robinson, David T. - 2022
We use confidential and restricted-access data from the Kauffman Firm Survey and matched administrative data on credit scores to explore racial disparities in access to capital for new business ventures. The novel results on racial inequality in startup financing indicate that black-owned...
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Ethnic Chinese Networks in International Trade
Rauch, James E. - 2011
have increased bilateral trade both within Southeast Asia and for other country pairs. Their effects within Southeast Asia … products within Southeast Asia attributable to ethnic Chinese networks exceeds 150 percent, suggesting that the informal trade …
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Social Networks, Ethnicity, and Entrepreneurship
Kerr, William - 2015
We study the relationship between ethnicity, occupational choice, and entrepreneurship. Immigrant groups in the United … and result in occupational stratification along ethnic lines via concentrated entrepreneurship …
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The Productivity Advantage of Serial Entrepreneurs
Shaw, Kathryn L. - 2017
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 2001-2013, the serial entrepreneur has 67% higher sales than the...
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Selection into Entrepreneurship and Self-Employment
Levine, Ross - 2018
We study the effects of ability and liquidity constraints on entrepreneurship. We develop a three sector Roy model that … on entry into entrepreneurship. The model predicts—and the data confirm—that entrepreneurs are positively selected on … positively selected on collateral, but other self-employed are not; and entrepreneurship is procyclical, but self-employment is …
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The Causal Link between Relative Age Effect and Entrepreneurship : Evidence from 17 Million Users Across 49 Years on Taobao
Wang, Youwei - 2018
We use an extensive panel of 17 million individuals born between 1947 and 1995 from China's largest online marketplace, Taobao, to study the impact of RAE on the propensity to become an entrepreneur. Using events surrounding the Cultural Revolution and the issuance of the Compulsory Education...
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Does Mandating Social Insurance Affect Entrepreneurial Activity?
Benzarti, Youssef - 2019
This paper estimates the effect of relaxing the social insurance mandate on entrepreneurial activity. We use a unique 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...
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Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Innovation in the U.S. High-Tech Sector
Brown, J. David - 2019
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 characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly...
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Personality Traits of Entrepreneurs : A Review of Recent Literature
Kerr, Sari Pekkala - 2017
entrepreneurial behavior considered: entry into entrepreneurship, performance outcomes, and exit from entrepreneurship. This … literature shows common results and many points of disagreement, reflective of the heterogeneous nature of entrepreneurship. We …
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