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into U.S. neighborhoods with no coffee shops increased entrepreneurship. We find that, when compared to census tracts that …
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This paper uses Norwegian tax records to examine the performance of angel investors. While most angel investments perform poorly, mean returns are twice the invested capital, due largely to extreme skewness: around one-third of investments are a total loss, but the top one-percent return more...
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Exploitation of disruptive technologies often requires resource deployment that creates conflict if there are divergent beliefs regarding the efficacy of a new technology. This arises when a visionary agent has more optimistic beliefs about a technological opportunity. Exploration in the form of...
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Immigrants contribute disproportionately to entrepreneurship in many countries, accounting for a quarter of new … employer businesses in the US. We review recent research on the measurement of immigrant entrepreneurship, the traits of …
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We examine the impact of local racial demonstrations, such as Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests, and the subsequent racial justice movement following the death of George Floyd on racial disparities in Paycheck Protection Program loan disbursements to small businesses. Using...
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We use data on stock portfolios of Norwegian households to show that stock market wealth increases entrepreneurship by … entrepreneurship. Higher wealth causally increases firm profitability, an indication that it relaxes would-be entrepreneurs' financial …
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This study examines gender differences in the social impact and commercial motives for academic entrepreneurship using … the National Science Foundation's Innovation Corps (NSF I-Corps) program. I-Corps provides experiential entrepreneurship … the inception of I-Corps, only 20% of participants have been women. We first use survey data from one I-Corps university …
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. This paper presents a model of entrepreneurship in which women face disadvantages, including discrimination from workers … in middle-income countries, where the returns to entrepreneurship are high enough to offset gender-based costs and both … more usually in industries with low levels of skilled workers. Despite the entrepreneurship rate's reversal of the U …
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Using a novel firm-level remote work measure created from big data on Internet activity, we show that firms with higher …
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We examine the performance of startups co-founded by immigrant and native teams. Leveraging unique data linking …
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