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Networking Frictions in Venture Capital, and the Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship
Howell, Sabrina T. - 2019
. Such frictions can help explain part of the gender gap in entrepreneurship, and also have implications for how to design …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480392
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Minority Self-Employment in the United States and the Impact of Affirmative Action Programs
Blanchflower, David G. - 2008
evidence on trends in self-employment for the US by race, ethnicity and gender. Evidence is also presented for construction … which has self-employment rates roughly double the national rates and where there are strikingly high racial and gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464674
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And the Children Shall Lead : Gender Diversity and Performance in Venture Capital
Gompers, Paul A. - 2017
With an overall lack of gender and ethnic diversity in the innovation sector documented in Gompers and Wang (2017), we … answer this question using a unique dataset of the gender of venture capital partners' children. First, we find strong …. Second, using an instrumental variable set-up, we also show that improved gender diversity, induced by parenting more …
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Inclusive Teaching : Spotting Social Isolation in the Classroom
Alan, Sule; Carlana, Michela; Leone, Marinella - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We evaluate an intervention designed to increase teachers' awareness of social isolation by providing them with their own students' social network and information on developmental risks associated with social exclusion. Using friendship data and incentive-compatible measures of antisocial and...
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Do Conflict of Interests Disclosures Work? : Evidence from Citations in Medical Journals
Leuz, Christian; Malani, Anup; Muhn, Maximilian; Jakab, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Financial ties between drug companies and medical researchers are thought to bias studies published in medical journals. To enable readers to account for such bias, most medical journals require authors to disclose potential conflicts of interest. We examine whether disclosure reduces article...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014226124
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Copyright Policy Options for Generative Artificial Intelligence
Gans, Joshua - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
New generative artificial intelligence (AI) models, including large language models and image generators, have created new challenges for copyright policy as such models may be trained on data that includes copy-protected content. This paper examines this issue from an economics perspective and...
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Effective Regulation and Firm Compliance : The Case of German Privacy Policies
Gambato, Jacopo; Ganglmair, Bernhard; Krämer, Julia K. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This chapter explores the interaction between the enforcement of and compliance with difficult-to-enforce rules in the context of data regulation. We focus on the effect of the introduction of the GDPR and its transparency principle on the readability of privacy policies for a large sample of...
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Optimal Income Taxation and Charitable Giving
Kaplow, Louis - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The philanthropic sector is highly consequential, particularly in the United States, and the most important policies directed toward this sector are tax policies. Yet most economic analysis of the optimal tax treatment of charitable giving is ad hoc, treating it as a subject unto itself. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014421177
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Lessons from the Biggest Business Tax Cut in US History
Chodorow-Reich, Gabriel; Zidar, Owen M.; Zwick, Eric - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We assess the business provisions of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the biggest corporate tax cut in US history. We draw five lessons. First, corporate tax revenue fell by 40 percent due to the lower rate and more generous expensing. Second, firms with larger declines in their effective tax...
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Taxing Capital in a Globalized World : The Effects of Automatic Information Exchange
Boas, Hjalte Fejerskov; Johannesen, Niels; Kreiner, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
In the second half of the 2010s more than 100 countries--including all large offshore financial centers--started to automatically exchange bank information with foreign tax authorities. This informational big-bang marks a break with the situation of offshore bank secrecy that prevailed before....
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