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Entrepreneurship Training, Risk Aversion and Other Personality Traits: Evidence from a Random Experiment

Fairlie, Robert - Economics Department, University of California-Santa … - 2014

A growing literature examines the relationship between personality traits and entrepreneurship, but no previous studies explore whether personality or psychological traits predispose individuals to benefit more from entrepreneurship training. To address selection issues, we use novel data from...

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Relationship between Small Business Line of Business and Survival: A Longitudinal Study in Cancun Mexico

Wobeser, Lorena Hernandez von; Hernandez, Francisco J. May - In: Revista Internacional Administracion & Finanzas 8 (2015) 5, pp. 81-93

Micro-sized Enterprise is the most common path for undertaking a business in Mexico and a fundamental part of the … economic structure of the country. Previous studies reported high mortality rates in this kind of business. The purpose of this … paper is to analyze the survival behavior of Micro-Enterprises categorized by kind of business in Region 101, a particular …

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Is There "White Flight" into Private Schools? Evidence from the National Educational Longitudinal Survey

Fairlie, Robert - Economics Department, University of California-Santa … - 2015

Using a recently released confidential dataset from the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES), we find some evidence of "white flight" from public schools into private schools partly in response to minority schoolchildren. We also examine whether "white flight" is from all minorities...

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Issues of Business Ethics in Domestic and International Businesses: A Critical Study

Gokmen, Aytac; Ozturk, A. Turan - In: International Journal of Business Administration 3 (2012) 5, pp. 82-88

Ethics is a significant issue in business both on the firm level and wider phases. Ethics indicate what is right and … what is wrong in business branches also lead employees and stakeholders with moral values. Ethics is the basics for an … management and corporate performance with a theoretical point of view, also with comprising the international business dimension …

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First-Run Smoking Presentations in U.S. Movies 1999-2006

Polansky, Jonathan R.; Glantz, Stanton PhD - Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, UC … - 2007

Smoking among American adults fell by half between 1950 and 2002, yet smoking on U.S. movie screens reached historic heights in 2002, topping levels observed a half century earlier. Tobacco's comeback in movies has serious public health implications, because smoking on screen stimulates...

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The Absence of the African-American Owned Business: An Analysis of the Dynamics of Self-Employment

Fairlie, Robert - Economics Department, University of California-Santa … - 2014

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.Â 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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