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The Impact of City Contracting Set-Asides on Black Self-Employment and Employment
Chatterji, Aaron - 2014
In the 1980s, many U.S. cities initiated programs reserving a proportion of government contracts for minority-owned businesses. The staggered introduction of these set-aside programs is used to estimate their impacts on the self-employment and employment rates of African-American men. Black...
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The Prison Boom and the Lack of Black Progress after Smith and Welch
Neal, Derek A.; Rick, Armin - 2021
More than two decades ago, Smith and Welch (1989) used the 1940 through 1980 census files to document important relative black progress. However, recent data indicate that this progress did not continue, at least among men. The growth of incarceration rates among black men in recent decades...
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Credit Constraints and the Racial Gap in Post-Secondary Education in South Africa
Lam, David A. - 2013
This paper analyzes the impact of high school household income and scholastic ability on post-secondary enrollment in South Africa. Using longitudinal data from the Cape Area Panel Study (CAPS), we analyze the large racial gaps in the proportion of high school graduates who enroll in university...
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Does Money Protect Health Status? Evidence from South African Pensions
Case, Anne - 2021
The channels by which better health leads to higher income, and those by which higher income protects health status, are of interest to both researchers and policy makers. In general, quantifying the impact of income on health is difficult, given the simultaneous determination of health and...
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Past Performance and Procurement Outcomes
Decarolis, Francesco - 2016
Reputational incentives may be a powerful mechanism for improving supplier performance and limiting the perverse effect of price competition on contract execution. We analyze a unique experiment run by a large utility company in Italy which introduced a new vendor rating system scoring its...
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Procuring Firm Growth : The Effects of Government Purchases on Firm Dynamics
Ferraz, Claudio - 2015
This paper tests whether demand shocks affect firm dynamics. We examine whether firms that win government procurement contracts grow more compared to firms that compete for these contracts but do not win. We assemble a comprehensive data set combining matched employer-employee data for the...
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Clusters of Entrepreneurship
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2014
. A second class of theories hypothesizes that some places are endowed with a greater supply of entrepreneurship. Evidence … on sales per worker does not support the higher returns for entrepreneurship rationale. Our evidence suggests that … entrepreneurship is higher when fixed costs are lower and when there are more entrepreneurial people …
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Why are There so Few Black Entrepreneurs?
Meyer, Bruce D. - 2010
Black entrepreneurship has been unsuccessful in the U.S. The fraction of employed blacks that work in their own …
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The Stability of the American Business Elite
Temin, Peter - 2021
This paper begins the task of explaining why the American business elite has remained white, male and mostly native-born Protestants for a century, as verified in a previous paper (Temin, 1997). I argue that the evidence is inconsistent with the hypotheses that the stability is due to...
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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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