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where growth is driven by the innovative activity of entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship is risky and requires investments that … affect the steepness of the lifetime consumption profile. As a consequence, the occupational choice of entrepreneurship …
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This study investigates the role of mobile phones in governance for doing business in Sub-Saharan Africa with data from … dimensions of entrepreneurship are considered. Two main findings are established with respect to the net effects of the …
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The United States provides a unique laboratory for understanding how the cultural, institutional, and human capital endowments of immigrant groups shape economic outcomes. In this paper, we use census micro-sample information to reconstruct the country-of-ancestry distribution for US counties...
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Why are certain movies more successful in some markets than others? Are the entertainment products we consume reflective of our core values and beliefs? These questions drive our investigation into the relationship between a society's oral tradition and the financial success of films. We combine...
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societies can be attributed to variation in societal interpersonal diversity, shaped during the prehistoric Out-of-Africa … from Africa …
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performance are more likely driven by differences in risk aversion or preferences for entrepreneurship rather than by skill. …
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that, after the Reunification, entrepreneurship is higher among the residents of East German regions with West TV signal …
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compatible with the free-market economy principles and supportive of entrepreneurship. We show that during the 40 years of … socialistic regime in East Germany entrepreneurship was highly regulated and virtually impossible and that the prevalent formal … and informal institutions broke the traditional ties linking entrepreneurship to the characteristics of individuals so …
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The slave trades out of Africa represent one of the most significant forced migration experiences in history. In this … trade on the “sending” countries in Africa, with attention to their economic, institutional, demographic, and social …
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performance are more likely driven by differences in risk aversion or preferences for entrepreneurship rather than by skill …
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