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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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Nearly a quarter of Mexico's workforce is self employed. But in the U.S. rates of self employment among Mexican Americans are only 6 percent, about half the rate among non-Latino whites. Using data from the Mexican and U.S. population census, we show that neither industrial composition nor...
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The growth in inventive activity during early American industrialization is explored by examining the careers of 160 inventors credited with important technological discoveries. Analysis of biographical information and complete patent histories through 1865 indicates that these 'great inventors'...
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Angel investor tax credits are used globally to spur high-growth entrepreneurship. Exploiting their staggered … evidence that direct subsidies to firms have positive effects, raising concerns about promoting entrepreneurship with investor …
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of immigrants in entrepreneurship. We ask how often immigrants start companies, how many jobs these firms create, and how …" than "job takers" and that non-U.S. born founders play outsized roles in U.S. high-growth entrepreneurship …
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We use Census micro data to shed new light on how growth in house prices boosts US entrepreneurship. At the height of …-level relationship between house price increases and entrepreneurship operates through expansion of the home equity collateral channel … entrepreneurship observed in city-level analyses comes from higher local demand that boosts entry. Our results provide a nuanced …
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We use data from PubMed and other sources to examine the impact of public and private research support on premature … longitudinal, cancer-site-level data on about 30 cancer sites. The estimates indicate that cancer sites about which more research …-2013, controlling for the change in the number of people diagnosed. Cancer sites for which more non-research-supported articles were …
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' effects on chemical innovation in the U.S. we compare changes in patenting by U.S. inventors in research fields of émigrés …
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patent policy are few. Possible reasons for these limited results are discussed, and possible avenues for future research are …
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” approach). We exploit a natural experiment in the widely emulated Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. From 2018 …
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