We evaluate the extent to which small businesses maintain an online presence, looking at restaurant listings on a major … in a restaurant's online presence as well as a natural experiment arising from a data acquisition that led over a …

restaurant decisions to voting behavior. These findings often leverage unique data sets and methods ranging from regression …

We study the impact of the minimum wage on firm exit in the restaurant industry, exploiting recent changes in the … minimum wage at the city level. We find that the impact of the minimum wage depends on whether a restaurant was already close … restaurant (which is the median rating on Yelp), but has no discernible impact for a 5-star restaurant (on a 1 to 5 star scale …