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 …

assumption. Our comprehensive assessment for sub-Saharan Africa reveals that undernourished women and children are spread widely …

In this paper we evaluate the impact of colonialism on development in Sub-Saharan Africa. In the world context … negative effect on development in Africa. To develop this claim we distinguish between three sorts of colonies: (1) those which …

OLS and a geographic regression discontinuity design along the matrilineal belt in Africa. Using over 50 DHS survey …

-standing) attributes in a culture set are. We illustrate these ideas using examples from African, England, China, the Islamic world, the …

We use an extensive panel of 17 million individuals born between 1947 and 1995 from China's largest online marketplace …

Using a unique firm-level dataset from China's "Silicon Valley," we investigate how multinational enterprises (MNEs …) affect local entrepreneurship and R&D activities upon entry. We find that R&D activities of MNEs in an industry stimulate …

admissions data for 1.8 million individuals with the universe of firm registration records in China. Within a college, we find …