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Do Startups Benefit from Their Investors' Reputation? Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
Bernstein, Shai; Mehta, Kunal; Townsend, Richard R.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We analyze a field experiment conducted on AngelList Talent, a large online search platform for startup jobs. In the experiment, AngelList randomly informed job seekers of whether a startup was funded by a top-tier investor and/or was funded recently. We find that the same startup receives...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013172146
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Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Innovation in the U.S. High-Tech Sector
Brown, J. David - 2019
We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries …. Our data come from the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs, a random sample of firms with detailed information on owner …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479519
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Rugged Entrepreneurs : The Geographic and Cultural Contours of New Business Formation
Barrios, John M.; Hochberg, Yael V.; Macciocchi, Daniele - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
How do geographic and historical-cultural factors shape new business formation? Using novel data on new business registrations, we document that 75% of the variation in new business formation is explained by time-invariant county-level factors and examine the extent to which such variation is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012496160
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How is COVID Changing the Geography of Entrepreneurship? Evidence from the Startup Cartography Project
Fazio, Catherine E.; Guzman, Jorge; Liu, Yupeng; Stern, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Leveraging data from eight U.S. states from the Startup Cartography Project, this paper provides new insight into the changing nature and geography of entrepreneurship in the wake of the COVID pandemic. Consistent with other data sources, following an initial decline, the overall level of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012533336
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The State of American Entrepreneurship : New Estimates of the Quantity and Quality of Entrepreneurship for 15 US States, 1988-2014
Guzman, Jorge - 2016
While official measures of business dynamism have seen a long-term decline, early-stage venture financing of new companies has reached levels not observed since the late 1990s, resulting in a sharp debate about the state of American entrepreneurship. Building on Guzman and Stern (2015a; 2015b), this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456579
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The Effects of the Emeryville Fair Workweek Ordinance on the Daily Lives of Low-Wage Workers and their Families
Ananat, Elizabeth Oltmans; Gassman-Pines, Anna; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Emeryville, CA's Fair Workweek Ordinance (FWO) aimed to reduce service workers' schedule unpredictability by requiring large retail and food service employers to provide advanced notice of schedules and to compensate workers for last-minute schedule changes. From a 1-in-6 sample of Emeryville...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938761
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Energy, Groundwater, and Crop Choice
Burlig, Fiona; Preonas, Louis; Woerman, Matt - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
in one of the world's most valuable agricultural areas: California. Using rich administrative data and exogenous … discrete choice model, we estimate that a counterfactual $10 per-acre-foot groundwater tax--a level consistent with California …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012510584
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The Impact of COVID-19 on Community College Enrollment and Student Success : Evidence from California Administrative Data
Bulman, George; Fairlie, Robert W. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Enrollment increased slightly at both the California State University and University of California systems in fall 2020 …, but the effects of the pandemic on enrollment in the California Community College system are mostly unknown and might … covering the universe of students in the 116-college California Community College system. We find that community college …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012510593
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Heterogeneity in the Impact of Privatizing Social Health Insurance : Evidence from California's Medicaid Program
Duggan, Mark G.; Garthwaite, Craig; Wang, Adelina Yanyue - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
this paper we study California's mandatory enrollment of the senior and persons with disabilities (SPD) population in MMC …
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Who Paid Los Angeles' Minimum Wage? A Side-by-Side Minimum Wage Experiment in Los Angeles County
Esposito, Christopher; Leamer, Edward E.; Nickelsburg, Jerry - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
wage law and in 2016 the State of California passed a different minimum wage law. This created two minimum wage schedules … proximity to restaurants subject to the lower California State minimum wage. The effect of neighborhood income levels and …
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