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Friendship at Work : Can Peer Effects Catalyze Female Entrepreneurship?
Field, Erica - 2015
Does the lack of peers contribute to the observed gender gap in entrepreneurial success, and is the constraint stronger for women facing more restrictive social norms? We offered two days of business counseling to a random sample of customers of India's largest women's bank. A random subsample...
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Networking Frictions in Venture Capital, and the Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship
Howell, Sabrina T; Nanda, Ramana - 2022
. Such frictions can help explain part of the gender gap in entrepreneurship, and also have implications for how to design …
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Serial Entrepreneurship : Learning by Doing?
Lafontaine, Francine - 2014
in operation. The data show that serial entrepreneurship is relatively uncommon in retail trade. Of the almost 2 …
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The State of American Entrepreneurship : New Estimates of the Quality and Quantity of Entrepreneurship for 32 Us States, 1988-2014
Guzman, Jorge - 2016
Assessing the state of American entrepreneurship requires not simply counting the quantity but also the initial quality … cycles as a driver of high-growth entrepreneurship, our results highlight the role of economic and institutional conditions …
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Nowcasting and Placecasting Entrepreneurial Quality and Performance
Guzman, Jorge - 2015
A central challenge in the measurement of entrepreneurship is accounting for the wide variation in entrepreneurial … quality distribution. Second, we propose two new economic statistics for the measurement of entrepreneurship: the … Entrepreneurship Quality Index (EQI) and the Regional Entrepreneurship Cohort Potential Index (RECPI). We use these indices to offer a …
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Social Capital and Labor Market Networks
Asquith, Brian - 2019
We explore the links between social capital and labor market networks at the neighborhood level. We harness rich data taken from multiple sources, including matched employer-employee data with which we measure the strength of labor market networks, data on behavior such as voting patterns that...
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Immigrant Networking and Collaboration : Survey Evidence from Cic
Kerr, Sari Pekkala - 2019
Networking and the giving and receiving of advice outside of one's own firm are important features of entrepreneurship …
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Who Owned Citibank? Familiarity Bias and Business Network Influences on Stock Purchases, 1925-1929
Calomiris, Charles W. - 2019
We study factors influencing individuals' decisions to purchase Citibank stock during the 1920s. Ownership was encouraged by proximity to New York and higher wealth. Lack of familiarity was also an important barrier. The establishment of Citibank branches within a U.S. county or a foreign...
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Online Appendix - Who Owned Citibank? Familiarity Bias and Business Network Influences on Stock Purchases, 1925-1929
Calomiris, Charles W. - 2019
This appendix contains additional figures and tables referenced in the paper, but not included in the main figures and tables. It contains the geographic distribution of shareholders and a visualization of the business network. It includes alternative specifications for the county-level and...
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Network Data
Graham, Bryan S. - 2019
Many economic activities are embedded in networks: sets of agents and the (often) rivalrous relationships connecting them to one another. Input sourcing by firms, interbank lending, scientific research, and job search are four examples, among many, of networked economic activities. Motivated by...
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