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Making Entrepreneurs : Returns to Training Youth in Hard Versus Soft Business Skills
Chioda, Laura; Contreras-Loya, David; Gertler, Paul J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
to the control group, SEED entrepreneurs created 985 additional jobs and 550 new businesses …
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Great Fortunes of the Gilded Age
Rockoff, Hugh - 2008
, moreover, were by far the most important secondary and tertiary sources of Gilded Age fortunes: entrepreneurs started in many …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464093
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Entrepreneurship and Urban Growth : An Empirical Assessment with Historical Mines
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2012
Measures of entrepreneurship, such as average establishment size and the prevalence of start-ups, correlate strongly with employment growth across and within metropolitan areas, but the endogeneity of these measures bedevils interpretation. Chinitz (1961) hypothesized that coal mines near...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460330
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Cities, Skills, and Regional Change
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2011
One approach to urban areas emphasizes the existence of certain immutable relationships, such as Zipf's or Gibrat's Law. An alternative view is that urban change reflects individual responses to changing tastes or technologies. This paper examines almost 200 years of regional change in the U.S....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461723
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Do Entrepreneurs Want Control? And Should They Get What They Want? A Historical and Theoretical Exploration
Lamoreaux, Naomi R.; Rosenthal, Jean-Laurent - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
entrepreneurs have been stymied by their investors. In this paper, we use a simple model to explore how outcomes might have been … different if entrepreneurs, instead of the investors, had control of their firms. We also explore the importance of legal rules … that enable entrepreneurs to lock in control even when, under one-share-one-vote governance, power would rest with their …
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Data Gaps and the Policy Response to the Novel Coronavirus
Stock, James H. - 2020
This note lays out the basic Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) epidemiological model of contagion, with a target audience of economists who want a framework for understanding the effects of social distancing and containment policies on the evolution of contagion and interactions with the...
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Empirics on the Origins of Preferences : The Case of College Major and Religiosity
Kimball, Miles S. - 2009
Early life experiences are likely to be important for the formation of preferences. Religiosity is a key dimension of preferences, affecting many economic outcomes. This paper examines the effect of college major on religiosity, and the converse effect of religiosity on college major, using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463467
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The Making of an Investment Banker : Macroeconomic Shocks, Career Choice, and Lifetime Income
Oyer, Paul - 2006
New graduates of elite MBA programs flock to Wall Street during bull markets and start their careers elsewhere when the stock market is weak. Given the transferability of MBA skills, it seems likely that any effect of stock returns on MBA placement would be short-lived. In this paper, I use a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466610
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The Best Business Schools : A Market Based Approach
Tracy, Joseph - 1994
We present a new methodology for ranking business schools. Unlike previous rankings based on subjective survey responses (from CEOs, business school deans, recruiters, or graduates), our approach uses data derived from the labor market for new MBAs. We adjust programs' salaries for the quality...
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How Do Business Owners Respond to a Tax Cut? Examining the 199A Deduction for Pass-through Firms
Goodman, Lucas; Lim, Katherine; Sacerdote, Bruce; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We consider the short-run responses of businesses and their owners to the introduction of Section 199A, a deduction implemented in 2018 that reduced the effective tax rate on pass-through business income. We study the deduction using several datasets derived from de-identified tax records of...
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