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Measures of entrepreneurship, such as average establishment size and the prevalence of start-ups, correlate strongly … instrument for our entrepreneurship measures and find a persistent link between entrepreneurship and city employment growth; this …
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Draft chapter for the forthcoming Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics, Vols. 5A and 5B This paper reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. The authors first describe the conceptual distinctions between invention and innovation. They then discuss how...
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We study entrepreneurship and growth through the lens of U.S. cities. Initial entrepreneurship correlates strongly with … damped entrepreneurship across several generations. Proximity to historical mining deposits is associated with reduced … entrepreneurship for cities in the 1970s and onward in industries unrelated to mining. We use historical mines as an instrument for our …
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We examine the effect of US branch banking deregulations on the entry size of new firms using micro-data from the US Census Bureau. We find that the average entry size for startups did not change following the deregulations. However, among firms that survived at least four years, a greater...
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We model spatial clusters of similar firms. Our model highlights how agglomerative forces lead to localized, individual connections among firms, while interaction costs generate a defined distance over which attraction forces operate. Overlapping firm interactions yield agglomeration clusters...
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Theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs and generate …
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Theoretical models of entrepreneurship posit that attitudes toward risk, entrepreneurial ability, and preferences for … rapidly growing empirical literature on entrepreneurship, however, have been able to test whether these factors are important … determinants of self-employment. Theoretical models of entrepreneurship posit that attitudes toward risk, entrepreneurial ability …
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.  However, the impact of immigration on natives in entrepreneurship has not been examined, despite the over-representation of … outcomes of native-born Americans.  However, the impact of immigration on natives in entrepreneurship has not been examined …
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Using confidential microdata from the Characteristics of Business Owners, we examine why African-American owned businesses lag substantially behind white-owned businesses in sales, profits, employment, and survival.  Black business owners are much less likely than white owners to have had a...
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Estimates from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) indicate that African-American men are one-third as likely to be self-employed as white men.  The large discrepancy is due to a black transition rate into self-employment that is approximately one half the white rate and a black...
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