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Politics, Relief, and Reform : The Transformation of America's Social Welfare System during the New Deal

Wallis, John Joseph - 2005

The American social welfare system was transformed during the 1930s. Prior to the New Deal public relief was administered almost exclusively by local governments. The administration of local public relief was widely thought to be corrupt. Beginning in 1933, federal, state, and local governments...

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Entrepreneurship and the City

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2007

Why do levels of entrepreneurship differ across America's cities? This paper presents basic facts on two measures of … entrepreneurship: the self-employment rate and the number of small firms. Both of these measures are correlated with urban success … entrepreneurship is linked to a large number of small firms in supplying industries. Finally, there is a strong connection between area …

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Intuit QuickBooks Small Business Index : A New Employment Series for the US, Canada, and the UK

Akcigit, Ufuk; Chhina, Raman; Cilasun, Seyit Mümin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Small and young businesses are essential for job creation, innovation, and economic growth. Even most of the superstar firms start their business life small and then grow over time. Small firms have less internal resources, which makes them more fragile and sensitive to macroeconomic conditions....

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Biomedical Academic Entrepreneurship Through the SBIR Program

Toole, Andrew A. - 2005

entrepreneurship. We highlight two main characteristics of the program that make it attractive as an entrepreneurship policy: early … the incidence of biomedical entrepreneurship through SBIR and describe some of the characteristics of these individuals …

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The Government as Venture Capitalist : The Long-Run Effects of the SBIR Program

Lerner, Josh - 1996

Public programs to provide early-stage financing to firms, particularly high-technology companies, have become commonplace in the United States and abroad. The long-run effectiveness of these programs, however, has attracted little empirical scrutiny. This paper examines the impact of the...

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The Dynamics of Educational Attainment for Blacks, Hispanics, and Whites

Cameron, Stephen V. - 1999

This paper estimates a dynamic model of schooling attainment to investigate the sources of discrepancy by race and ethnicity in college attendance. When the returns to college education rose, college enrollment of whites responded much more quickly than that of minorities. Parental income is a...

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Minority Underrepresentation in U.S. Cities

Ricca, Federico; Trebbi, Francesco - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper investigates the patterns of Minority representation and voter registration in U.S. municipal governments. For the period 1981-2020, we report substantial levels of strategic underrepresentation of African American, Asian, and Latino voters in U.S. local politics. Disproportionality...

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The Great Unequalizer : Initial Health Effects of COVID-19 in the United States

Alsan, Marcella; Chandra, Amitabh; Simon, Kosali Ilayperuma - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We measure inequities from the COVID-19 pandemic on mortality and hospitalizations in the United States during the early months of the outbreak. We discuss challenges in measuring health outcomes and health inequality, some of which are specific to COVID-19 and others that complicate attribution...

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The Long-Run Impacts of Mexican-American School Desegregation

Antman, Francisca M.; Cortes, Kalena E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

attainment for Hispanics and non-Hispanic whites in California. Our identification strategy relies on comparing individuals … for Hispanics who were fully exposed to school desegregation …

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What the Students for Fair Admissions Cases Reveal About Racial Preferences

Arcidiacono, Peter; Kinsler, Josh; Ransom, Tyler - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Using detailed admissions data made public in the SFFA v. Harvard and SFFA v. UNC cases, we examine how racial preferences for under-represented minorities (URMs) affect their admissions to Harvard and UNC-Chapel Hill. At Harvard, the admit rates for typical African American applicants are on...

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